Whenever I visit a city, I try to make a pilgramige to its Real World house. Even though the show now sucks, visiting the space once used for a season of the show is like visiting a cemetery and looking at the tombstone of someone you once knew and loved, but who you’ve sort of …
The place where most of The Real World Denver‘s drama occurred has become Theorie, a restaurant and martini bar that opened last weekend. But although people may be getting drunk there, the space doesn’t look the same as it did on TV. Specifically, “the pool that people saw on the TV show is missing, and …
The Real World Denver concludes tonight after 28 episodes of what The Denver Post’s John Wenzel calls “little more than alcohol-fueled promiscuity.” That behavior has been watched, the paper reports, by an average of “2.2 million viewers per episode, compared with Key West’s 2.6 million, according to Nielsen Media.” In Denver, the LoDo’s Bar & …
The 18th season of The Real World airs its penultimate episode tonight at 10 p.m. ET as the seven strangers get ready to leave the residents of Denver alone. The finale airs next Wednesday, May 16. The show has been number one on cable in its time slot among people ages 12 to 34, MTV …
I stopped watching The Real World Denver after its first horrifying fight, but that apparently wasn’t the end of the possibility of violence on the show. The Los Angeles Times’ Ann Donahue says that the last two episodes “address[ed] the shades of gray in a volatile relationship,” specifically between Tyrie and a woman he hooked …
In an early post for his blog Get Real Denver last June, The Denver Post’s John Wenzel asked, “Is ‘The Real World’ good for Denver? Why are they really here?” Now, almost four months after the show’s debut, he offers his answer: “it was a waste of time to think that it would somehow benefit …
Following Wednesday night’s episode of The Real World Denver, during which two cast members got into an alcohol-soaked fight, the show’s co-creator talked to TV Week about producers’ involvement and responsibility, or lack thereof. Jon Murray says, “It’s always a judgment call on the part of the producer or director that’s right there on the …