If MTV’s popular reality TV series suddenly morphed into of the young people it documents it would only now be of legal age to imbibe in an alcoholic beverage. Ironically, the show has often been accused of glamorizing underage drinking and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change anytime soon.
Earlier this week MTV execs announced it has green-lighted the 21st season of “The Real World.” And viewers can expect some changes to the new episodes. First of all, the new season will be filmed in Brooklyn. Another note: Producers have decided to keep the new one-hour 13 show format, which it introduced this season rather than return to the traditional 30-minute installments.
According to MTV, this season’s “The Real World: Hollywood” is ranked as the network’s No.1 show in its time slot among viewers 12 to 34 years old. “The Real World: Brooklyn,” which is scheduled to premiere in January 2009 takes the show back to where it all began – New York City.
I admit I was an avid “Real World” fan when I was in college. In fact, the very first season of “The Real World” debuted the summer before my sophomore year in college and I was hooked from the start. I tuned in regularly to watch Eric, Norm, Becky, Kevin and crew bicker, battle and blow off their day jobs while cameras rolled 24 hours a day. In the years that followed I saw new cast members live life to the fullest in Los Angeles, San Francisco (my favorite season) and Boston. I stopped watching after the Boston season because real life got in the way of me being able to afford cable TV. (By then I was out of college and trying to make it on my own in the real, real world.
I haven’t seen much of the current controversial “Hollywood” season save for excerpts showing one of the cast members entering rehab for alcohol abuse.
What do you make of the fact that “The Real World” is turning 21?
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