Today in show business news: Nicki Minaj is going to try her hand at film acting, Duck Dynasty is huge, and MTV gets into the Scream business.
MTV will cancel the show, a little over a week after of one the show's star cast members died of carbon monoxide poisoning. But does a network known for its questionable taste in reality TV owe it to the rest of the kids to keep the show on the air? That's what Buckwild's show runner is arguing, vehemently, as he vows to keep filming.
One of the most prominent cast members of MTV's reality show has been found dead along with his uncle and another unnamed person in a vehicle in Sissonville, West Virginia, the backdrop of the popular (if controversial) show.
If this movie is remembered for anything other than a shirtless Hugh Jackman fighting ninjas, it will be remembered for taking the trailer roll-out campaign to the next level of ridiculous.
Just as the week of the big-brand Twitter hack was getting as old as it was useful to the "victims," the feeds of BET and MTV were "hacked." Except they were stunt-hacked in a pre-planned, inter-office joke that turned into a viral marketing ploy gone bad.
The show rings remarkably false — even for an MTV reality show, even for the supposed successor to Jersey Shore — especially in contrast to the show's supposed mission, which is to shed a light on backwoods kids who just don't give a good god darn.
Yes, Jersey Shore's last episode has arrived, bringing to a close a phenomenon — and an American era of sorts — that was both sordid and silly, full of the kind of cheap voyeurism whose subjects quickly became self-aware.
In one of the episodes screened at Portlandia's season three premiere last night, two of the characters played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein try to take back MTV. So what was Vinny from Jersey Shore doing at the after party?
Today in showbiz news: MTV sends us to West Virginia with its new show Buckwild, a Stephen King series is headed to CBS, and more Sundance films have been announced.
With Sandy having arrived on our shores and the polls are not really telling us how the election is going to turn out the campaign is drawing to a close on a serious note. But has it ever been fun for Romney?
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Tonight we see the confluence of three major, celebrity-filled, potentially world-changing events: the final night of the Democratic National Convention, the MTV Video Music Awards, and Fashion's Night Out.
The President was going to spoil MTV's biggest party of the year on Thursday night, so they're just going to start and finish an hour earlier than they usually do instead of going head-to-head against him. That's not very rock n' roll, guys.
Jersey Shore is officially over. Not like no-longer-trendy over, but actually done. As Variety's Stuart Levine reports, MTV is ending the show after its sixth season, but that doesn't mean we'll lose out on shows that glorify embarrassing ethnic stereotypes.
Kurt Loder, columnist, TV personality, and author of the recent film-review collection The Good, the Bad, and the Godawful starts the day with O.J. (or a Coke) and Drudge Report and ends it with wine, Twitter, and maybe a book or a movie.
Let's just get this out of the way: Yes, MTV's Teen Wolf is chock full of shirtless hardbodies standing around in locker rooms and various other shirt-free zones. The show is also more than that: a deceptively smart, sly show, one that knows it's junk food and simply aspires to be the tastiest garbage around. And it succeeds!
Lil Wayne explained that he pulled Nicki Minaj from Summer Jam because...women ought to be respected.
Today: The Diceman gets a strange new opportunity, NBC finds a Hannibal Lecter, and MTV digs through the barrel some more.
Remember The Real World? It first came out 20 years ago, on this very day back in 1992.
Following its predicted path as the MTV of the Internet, YouTube has started something called The Next Vlogger initiative, which sounds a lot like MTV's Wanna Be a VJ contests.
The Mad Men star is not a fan of her ex-husband's jokes, a tennis pro claims Dennis Quaid absconded with his date on Valentine's Day, and Rihanna's dad wants his daughter to give Chris Brown another chance
Last night saw the finale of the The Real World: San Diego and we're kind of sad to see it go.
MTV is airing a marathon of their surprise hit teen show. You should watch it!
Fewer kids today are losing their virginity during their teenage years than they were just a decade ago, according to the latest report on teenagers' sexual activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It looks like television's most guidolicious show made it from TV set to classroom projector slide faster than any program this decade.
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For good or for ill, Occupy Wall Street has passed a milestone in its evolution as a cultural phenomenon: it will be the setting of an MTV reality show.
In a shameless bid for attention, they offered to pay a star not to wear their clothing
The party seems a little subdued, doesn't it?
Kurt Loder was actually quite right about the cyberspace being a big deal
The film critic scolds the Jackass star--hours after his death--for drunk driving
MTV CEO Judy McGrath quits the day after 'Electric Barbarellas' debuts
Soviets replaced by Chinese, Chinese replaced by North Koreans
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