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BTW: ESPN scored another big WNBA audience as the season hit the midway point on Wednesday, getting 1.7M viewers for a FEVER-WINGS game, or basically the same size audience as a regular season NBA game.
REST IN PEACE: Goes out to comedy legend Bob Newhart, who died at the age of 94. A testament to his comedy and range that a 9-year-old kid like myself loved watching his sitcom in the 80s. A singular talent who will be missed.
WEEKEND READ: This NYT read about long-time WSJ personal finance columnist Jonathan Clements, who got a devastating cancer diagnosis at 61, sharing his thoughts on his previous advice about saving to have money for your later years . . . and about life in general is worth a read for some great perspective after the week that was. #goodread
Ya know, I\u2019m beginning to think maybe those \u201Cvinyl people\u201D are onto something. \uD83E\uDDD0 Either way, my practice of always getting a printed airplane boarding pass when I check in is looking a lot smarter today. Okay fine, maybe just a little less ridiculous.
PLUS: The cable business\u2019 latest \u201Cinnovation\u201D? ALTICE is offering a package of 80 streaming channels for $30 a month to its broadband customers. Any sports? No. CNN? No. Basically a bunch of PAR and DISCO channels and 50 other randos.
The WNBA is pitting the Team USA Olympic squad against a Team WNBA squad, consisting of essentially all of the top folks who didn\u2019t make the team (yes, including Caitlin Clark). This could be fun tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m.
Wherein we discuss WTF this new idea for WBD\u2019s future is actually all about, what execs and agents think about 2024\u2019s #RemakeFever and Richard explains what made him dart out of an Emmys party circa the late 2000s and never return.
HOWEVER: The earnings report news wasn\u2019t all sunshine and baby reindeer \u2014 it still has a ways to go to making advertising a robust business, and needs to do more things to defer to what the ad community wants . . . vs. the way NETFLIX likes to do things. Funny how the people holding the money call the shots. \uD83E\uDD11
So, let\u2019s break down the things to know about where the subscriber growth is coming from (which has shifted from Q1), the timeline and work involved ahead for the NETFLIX ad tier, the likely price hikes ahead and more, as #medianerd\uD83E\uDD13 comes back in from his Jersey Shore house.
The show debuted amid controversy regarding its use of the terms "Guido/Guidette", its portrayal of Italian-Americans, and allegations of perpetuating stereotypes. It also was criticized by locals who observed that the cast members were not residents of the area.[1][2][3][4] (Most were from New York, and at least two of them were not Italian).
The show became a pop culture phenomenon with classes and conferences at universities about the show and journalists listing it as one of the most notable shows of the time. The Shore franchise spawned several international adaptations in other countries. Four of the Jersey Shore cast members received spin-off shows on MTV, with the most successful being Snooki & Jwoww. Most of the cast went on to appear in other reality programs or receive their own shows on various networks.
On August 20, 2017, a one-off television special called Reunion Road Trip: Return to the Jersey Shore aired on the E! network.[5][6] On November 27, 2017, MTV announced that the cast (with the exception of Giancola) would be reuniting in Miami, Florida, for a new reunion series titled Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.[7] The series premiered globally on April 5, 2018.[7][8]
VH1 producer Anthony Beltempo proposed the idea of a show focusing on the "guido" lifestyle for TV, in the form of a male competition series.[43] Executive producer SallyAnn Salsano, who previously worked on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, devised a new concept, inspired by her own summers in a Jersey summer shore house, and retained casting director Doron Ofir to find the cast. MTV Networks President Van Toffler felt that the series "loud, young, bold" style was better suited to MTV's sensibilities than VH1, and MTV programming executive Tony DiSanto felt that "[After The Hills], it was time to go for a more authentic approach, like a documentary." Van Toffler described the casting process by saying they looked for "candor, honesty, boldness and a very combustible, chaotic mess. You could honestly say none of these people were traditionally beautiful."[17]
In an article in Rolling Stone, it was mentioned that the house had 35 remote-controlled cameras in fixed locations, 12 hand-held ones, one IMX camera and six DV cameras.[47] Nicole Polizzi said that:
"They have cameras everywhere, all the time ... You're always being watched. You kind of get a little paranoid, because you're like, 'Who's watching me?' ... It's trippy. it messes with your head. But that's why we go crazy. That's why we fight with each other. That's why we drink. We're living in a house for two months with that shit. We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or internet ... There's no normalcy. It's like a prison, with cameras. The only time we're not on camera is when we're in the shower, and that's why we all take three-hour showers, just to get away from it all."[47]
After Season 1, the cast negotiated pay increases, though both they and DiSanto explained that it was not contentious, and was given undue weight by the press. Rather than wait until the next New Jersey summer for Season 2, the production moved to Miami.[17]
In January 2010, MTV announced that a second season consisting of 12 episodes had been ordered and would air that summer.[48][49][50] It would follow all of the first-season cast as they avoided the cold northeast winter[48][49] by relocating to the South Beach, Florida. In May 2010 the cast relocated back to the Jersey Shore for the rest of filming, but it was later determined that the production company had enough footage from the Miami shoot to fill the entire second season,[51] and that the footage to be shot at the Jersey Shore would be used for a third season.[52] The second season premiered on July 29, 2010,[52] averaging 5.252 million viewers.[53] Season 2 was the #1 television series in the P12-34 demographic for the summer of 2010 across all TV and has also posted continued growth every week.[54]
On July 20, 2010, MTV announced that the cast would return for a third season,[55][56][57] with the exception of Pivarnick.[58] Season 3 returned to the original Jersey Shore summer setting,[55][56] and replaced Angelina with Deena Nicole Cortese, a longtime friend of Polizzi.[59] The season's January 6, 2011 premiere was viewed by a record 8.45 million viewers, making it MTV's most viewed series telecast ever.[60][61] The second episode of the season once again set a series and MTV high at the time, with 8.56 million viewers,[62] only to set another record with the airing of the fourth episode, which garnered 8.87 million viewers.[63]
On January 25, 2011, it was confirmed that the show had been renewed for a fourth season, to be filmed in Italy during the first half of 2011.[64][65] The fourth season premiered August 4, 2011.[65] MTV confirmed in June 2011 that the fifth season would return to Seaside Heights.[66]
Believed complications caused by Nicole Polizzi's pregnancy, and several cast members (including Polizzi, DelVecchio, and Farley) receiving spin-offs sparked talk about the future of the series past the fifth season, however on March 19, 2012, MTV officially confirmed that the series would return for a sixth season, with all cast members returning.[67] Filming for the sixth season took place in mid-2012, and featured Polizzi nearly eight months pregnant. MTV said in a statement, "While things will definitely be a little different this time when they hit the boardwalk, their trademark hilarity and family dysfunction will remain the same."[68]
The Jersey Shore house is the name given to the house used on MTV show Jersey Shore. Located in Seaside Heights, the house was used during the first season, starting on December 3, 2009, and was used on the show in four out of the six seasons, the exceptions being season 2 (Miami Beach, Florida) and season 4 (Florence, Italy). Since the show's cancellation, the house is currently being rented out for days at a time;[69] it was reported in 2018 that the house was renting for $1,200 a night.[70]
The house was characterized by its unique decor and the hot tub. During the filming of Jersey Shore, the house was decorated with Scarface posters and Cadillac symbols and wheels. The house is also home to the duck phone, a home telephone in the form of a mallard duck.[71] All of the furniture that is seen on the show was brought in by the production company, including the hot tub, for which they needed a permit from Seaside Heights when filming.[72]
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