16 and Recovering: a powerful look at addiction that’s MTV’s best reality show in years
MTV’s 16 and Recovering, which follows students, faculty, and staff at Northshore Recovery High School in Mass., is exceptional reality television.
MTV’s RealityCon will not be the first attempt at a reality fan convention like Comic-Con
MTV’s announcement of RealityCon has been treated by the entertainment press as if it’s a brand-new idea. But it’s been tried before.
MTV’s Real World, Made, and Daria return as shows MTV will try to sell elsewhere
MTV Studios will reboot old MTV shows and try to sell them to streaming services—and also produce new shows, like a The Hills-ish series called The Valley.
Review: Floribama Shore is MTV garbage in an uglier package
The title of MTV’s newest series is not Floribama Shore. It is MTV Floribama Shore, that’s how tightly MTV is tying itself and its identity to the series, which follows seven people spending the summer in Panama City Beach. So if this show is MTV, what is MTV now? It’s a woman so intoxicated that she drops her …
Review: 90’s House is the worst of today’s MTV
The 1990s were peak MTV for me, especially early seasons of The Real World and Road Rules, and whether it’s an appreciation of the decade’s culture or an opportunity to escape our own, the ’90s are back. MTV revived TRL yesterday, and a new Road Rules is on its way. So it’s with those joyous memories of 1990s reality …
Another exceptional Startup season, and a comedic show I didn’t expect to like
Reviews of MTV2’s Shinesty, which follows employees at a clothing company, and Startup season 4, which follows Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel.
TRL is coming back to MTV, without Carson Daly
MTV’s strategy of returning to its roots to win back viewers will continue this October, when the network will resurrect Total Request Live, aka TRL. It has been off the air for nine years, having been on television for a decade. The Voice host Carson Daly will not return to the show, which he hosted …
