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View all search resultsMTV reimagines 'The Real World' with Facebook Watch
MTV Studios has announced a partnership with Facebook Watch with the aim of reimagining its series The Real World for three new seasons.
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TV Studios, a unit of Viacom’s pay television channel Music Television (MTV), has announced a partnership with Facebook Watch with the aim of reimagining its series The Real World, with three new seasons set to debut in spring 2019.
According to a press release received by The Jakarta Post, the series will be aired exclusively on Facebook Watch.
“MTV’s The Real World helped to define a generation and created a new genre of television with a simple yet powerful idea of connecting people from wildly divergent backgrounds to find common ground on the issues that often divided them,” MTV president Chris McCarthy said in the release.
The news was announced by Facebook’s head of content planning and strategy, Matthew Henick, Facebook director of product management Paresh Rajwat and Chris McCarthy himself at MIPCOM, an annual trade show on entertainment content, which took place in Cannes from Oct. 15-18.
MTV Studios is reportedly co-producing the new seasons with Bunim/Murray Productions, and pre-production is already underway for local versions in Mexico, Thailand and the US.
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The new season will introduce interactive social and community features to allow fans to connect across mobile, desktop and Facebook’s TV application. The Facebook community will be given the opportunity to vote one housemate into the series before it airs, and fans will be able to interact with the cast using Facebook Live, Premieres and Watch Party, along with other perks.
“By partnering with Facebook Watch and BMP, we have the opportunity to impact culture and create a new genre of television all over again, while engaging the next generation of content consumers around the world.” McCarthy added.
The series was initially created as a social experiment touching on HIV/AIDS, race and mental health, among other subjects of societal concern. (acr/mut)
