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MTV Begone: Did Alt-Weeklies Help Drive 'The Real World' to Sydney?

By AAN Staff

january 11, 2007 12:58 pm

MTV Begone: Did Alt-Weeklies Help Drive 'The Real World' to Sydney?

Job ads for "The Real World" production assistants have been sited around Australia and traced back to the pioneering reality show's production company, reports TV Squad. Why Australia? The AOL blog offers a provocative thesis: that the reason for the trip abroad is that "alternative newsweeklies in American cities, like The Stranger in Seattle, have made it harder and harder for the Real World crew to shoot without interruption and open hostility from the locals." (Insert long pat on back here.) According to TV Squad, the Real World's last ventures abroad, in Paris and London, were not considered critical or popular successes.

View full article at TV Squad (AOL.com)