MTV Movie Awards shaking things up with 5 new categories, "academy" of voters

[TMC]

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/25/mtv-movie-awards-new-categories

MTV is hoping the changes adds some credibility to the June ceremony.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mtv-movie-awards-fun-academy-voting-315729

The MTV Movie Awards is classing up its act. For the venerable
celebration of Hollywood’s 21st edition in June, multiple awards
categories have been dropped, a few others added, and the network has
installed an “academy” of actors, producers, agents and other industry
insiders to vote on nominees, including a “breakthrough performance”
award voted on by directors. Although the network won’t reveal voter
names, the panel strategy is similar to the one used for the annual
Video Music Awards and is designed to broaden

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[Mason Barge]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:34:47 -0700 (PDT), TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

>http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/25/mtv-movie-awards-new-categories
>
>MTV is hoping the changes adds some credibility to the June ceremony.
>
>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mtv-movie-awards-fun-academy-voting-315729
>
>The MTV Movie Awards is classing up its act.

The words "MTV" and "class" appearing in the same sentence made me spit my
coffee.