They’ve gone to Amerikay.
MTV presents the US version of the Almost Impossible Game Show, which premieres next Thursday on the beleaguered pop-culture channel and its heavily-pushed app.
Limerick’s finest The Rubberbandits have held on to the voiceover spot in a tough market for UK/Irish telly pilots.
In fairness.
MTV, next Thursday.Probably up on Youtube after
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmboEjwJwFU
MTV’s Kurt Loder and some of 1995’s finest celebs share their thoughts on the ‘information superhighway’ and the proliferation of ‘special interest truckstops’ called ‘websites’.
Feel old. Feel very old.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMsrPuqNh54
A commercial for MTV Brazil from Brazilian creative agency ParanoidBR.
600 balloons on a 200-meter rail, popped 10 balloons per second to create a flip-book style animation featuring Ozzy Osborne, Slash, Amy Winehouse and others.
Mmm. Rubbery.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8vDlj7jaU
The original US incarnation, which began in 2009, quickly became a cultural phenomenon and returned for its third series with 8.4 million viewers earlier this month.
But it was not to everyone’s tastes – one Guardian writer described it as making “Big Brother look like Dostoyevsky” – and it caused controversy after it was accused of stereotyping Italian-Americans.
The UK version of the show will be made by Liverpool-based Lime Pictures, producer of another teen reality show, The Only Way Is Essex, which was a hit for digital channel ITV2 last year, and Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.
Jesus. Wept.
It’s now only a matter of time before there’s an Irish version. Any guesses as to the location?
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