May 13, 2008
The Real World to Ruin Brooklyn this Summer
Entering its 21st season, MTV's The Real World returns to New York for a third time...but for the first time it's headed to an outer-borough. That's right, the seven generic, good-looking roommates will be heading to Brooklyn.
Shooting begins this summer, and will result in 12 hour-long episodes. In the press release we received, Jon Murray, co-creator of the show, says "The Brooklyn season, like the Hollywood season, will focus on what people loved about 'The Real World' when it launched in 1992 - genuine people, meaningful conflict and powerful stories." Really Jon? We're sort of betting it'll be more about the cast taking over bars, fighting with locals, getting drunk and sleeping with roommates -- all as they take their amazingly overpriced living quarters for granted.
The big question now is: Which part of Brooklyn will have the distinct pleasure of welcoming the new residents? Our guess is they'll be taking over a few luxury condo units in Williamsburg. Perhaps this will unite the hipsters and anti-hipsters of the 'nabe? Either way, get ready to see the production taking over McCarren Pool Parties this summer.
|
i would rather be waterboarded than to see this happen.
haha can Williamsburg possibly fit any more weiners?
They'll be right at home with all the other 40 year old 'keepin' it real' skateboarders.
i would love for them to have to take the L during rush hour in the a.m. with all that camera equipment AND at night, take the L the wrong way and get off in bushwick.
I thought Remy Ma was starring in Real World Rikers Island.
For some truly Real World, move them into the Armory Women's Shelter.
Wow, like I needed another reason to say away from the Burg. I will be interesting to see if everyone back home's views of Brooklyn change from "dangerous and full of thugs" to "obnoxious and full of hipsters." Though frankly, I think I'd prefer the former.
heck i think they should be in Bushwick
cheers to billybob--
finally someone saying something against the need to grow up and be a man 'keeping it fake' 40 year old skateboarders!
Let 'em come on over to Bed Stuy and stay in our Armory. We'll show them real.
That, or let them live in the Red Hook IKEA as they continue to furnish the inside. Either one gets my vote.
Sorry to insult your husband, Suepart.
please let at least one of these stupid twats get shot
Call me ignorant, but since this series premiered in '92, how on earth is it in its 21st season?
Stick 'em on the G train
@NYCSniper - Because MTV airs the shows more than once a year. You're so ignorant.
I was wondering that myself, NYCSniper. I remember seasons 1-4 very clearly, and they certainly weren't 21 years ago. According to what I read on Wikipedia, since 2002 they've shown two "seasons" per year, resulting in 21 seasons in approximately 16 years.
ack!
They they land in my hood, I'm gone.
such manufacture crap.
wes...for your sake..i hope they dont move to brooklyn heights either.
It's a good bet they won't put them in Bay Ridge, Marine Park, or Brownsville, but the idea of MTA Real World kids bickering with the locals in those neighborhoods sounds tempting. The Real World vs...the real world!
www.forgotten-ny.com
This 'season' would be more entertaining if they made it more like the "Mad Real World" ala the dave chapelle show 4 years ago.
:o)
Is MTV really running out of places for the real world to be, that they need to be in NY for the third time?
East New York! East New York!
put 'em in bushwick indeed. hell yes. and let chappelle run the thing, just for good measure...
god that's going to suck.
Well, if other cities can put up with then so can we. Everyone knows by now that The Real World isn't real. What season did the kids all start looking like supermodels?
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't no water let the Real Worlders burn. Burn Motherf#^*ers, burn.
There goes the neighborhood.
MTV, a day late and a dollar short. So desperate to remain relevant.
This is one of the worst ideas ever. Stick them up in the bronx.
#6, I think your comment might have been insightful about ten years ago.
I'd have rather seen Real World City Island or Real World East Bronx. They're more hip than B-Burg these days, as MTV's arrival confirms.
The Real World to Ruin Brooklyn this Summer
as others have pointed out, they're a couple of years too late
Finally, I'll get to see urban black people someplace other than Sea!
It would be hilarious if they decorate the home with tons of hipster propoganda and have a few hipsters coming over to the house, thus making everything hipster mainstream.
hopefully they end up in Park Slope.
Here's hoping they end up at Union Hall yelling "F Me! F Me!" at 4am....
Let them earn their rent doing guerilla marketing in Washington Heights, then juice up the show by letting a convicted sex offender live with them. Finish it out with a gig in Crown Heights promoting islamic imam tapes and watch the fun!
it this show still on?
Rarely does an article make me exclaim outloud, "FUCK!" in anger... but this was one of those times.
So long as they stay the hell outta Carroll Gardens, I'm a happy camper. For the record, I'm going with Billyburg or DUMBO.
Although you just know they'll make an appearance at Beach Bar in LIC, hit up Smith Street and Bedford Ave and be all over the LES regardless of which condo monstrosity they are dumped in.
A big Piss Off to the folks at MTV,
Z.
Exactly my thoughts #38 hungryghoast. Granted I just moved here, but I hate the Real World and Viacom.
Sumner Redstone just needs to fucking die.
No one actually watches that show.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Brooklyn is where the stupid people go. It's Mecca for stupid people.
So naturally it follows that a stupid tv reality show filled with stupid people should be filmed there.
I find more stupid people in Staten Island than Bklyn. But there are stupid people everywhere, even HERE!
That's is! I'm moving back to Manhattan.
"That's it."
I'm infected from reading Gothamist too often, apparently.