MTV

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 8:09pm on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

MTV is picking up a second season of the series "16 and Pregnant." In addition, MTV will also air "16 and Pregnant: Life After Labor" finale special, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, on Thursday, July 23rd at 10PM ET/PT. "16 & Pregnant" can currently be seen on Thursdays at 10PM ET/PT.

The series follows the lives of teenage girls for 5-7 months as they navigate the unfamiliar territory of being pregnant. MTV captured every moment and reaction in real time, including several of the births and how the young mothers and fathers dealt with new parenthood. The series tackles a variety of issues including marriage, adoption, attending school and dealing with gossip. Cameras continued to follow the teens for a significant amount of time after they gave birth to document how they coped with taking care of their infants in addition to balancing adult responsibilities with teenage life.

The "16 and Pregnant: Life After Labor" finale special, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, will be an issue-driven forum on teen pregnancy. All six of the teen mothers profiled on season one of the series will participate. Dr. Drew will discuss each girl's episode, specific issues and challenges and update us on what's going on in their lives now. This open discussion will provide a platform to address the controversial topics that were shown in season one: birth control, adoption, abortion, marriage, religion, gossip, finances, high school graduation and employment.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:31am on Thursday, June 25th, 2009

MTV President of Programming Tony DiSanto unveiled a new slate of programs in development at MTV on June 23, 2009. They include comedy, scripted, animation, music and reality.

Projects range from following an aspiring wannabe superhero and his cohorts in "The Awesomes," showcasing the lives of Latino teenagers with a comedic spin in the "Adrienne Bailon Project" (working title), an adapted version of the international musical hit "Patito Feo," to chronicling the life of a desperately-unpopular teenager in "Hard Times." Jamie Foxx returns with the next generation of sketch comedy in the "Untitled Sketch Comedy Show" (working title) and drawing together horror, romance and werewolf mythology, MTV is developing a pilot based on the classic 80's movie "Teen Wolf."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:19pm on Monday, June 15th, 2009

MTV's 23rd Season of “The Real World” will be filmed in Washington DC:

The 23rd season of “The Real World” will begin production in Washington D. C. in the summer of 2009 and is slated to premiere in 2010. In the upcoming season, eight young adults will experience life in the nation’s capital as they live and pursue their passions in the city that many of our country’s most influential figures call home.

“The charged atmosphere of Washington D.C., the center of our country’s social and political change, will provide an electric setting for this next season of ‘The Real World,’ said Tony DiSanto, President of Programming, MTV.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 10:35pm on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

February 12, 2009: Writing at the Marketwatch web site, Jon Friedman argued that Viacom needs to fix MTV's image:

"Sumner Redstone, the company patriarch, has long boasted of MTV's influence on popular culture around the world. But MTV has yet to develop as many hits as it did in its heyday, when stars like Cindy Crawford sparkled on the cable network.

Just as Viacom can be considered a casualty of the media world's advertising slump and the national recession, MTV is also suffering from an inability to cope with the changes that the industry has seen in recent years. Thanks to technological advances, young consumers don't need to watch MTV on television to learn about the latest cultural and fashion trends or cement friendships.

Viacom, like many other large media concerns, appeared to fail to anticipate the coming of the Internet and, as a result, didn't adequately find ways to take advantage of the Web until it was too late for Viacom to exert what might have been a big competitive advantage. "