MTV Details New Shows, Pilots
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 4/2/2003 10:48:00 AM
MTV: Music Television has green-lit two new programs, including a late-night talk show hosted by Tom Green, as well as unveiling a development slate of one-dozen pilots Wednesday.
MTV officials said they were going ahead with The New Tom Green Talk Show,a one-hour nightly talk-fest, as well as a reality series about newlyweds Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey in which the network will chronicle the pair's first year as husband and wife.
The Green show premieres June 16 at midnight, and the untitled Simpson-Lachey show is slated for August.
In addition, MTV has green-lit nearly one-dozen pilots for its development slate the rest of this year.
In When I Was 17, celebrities will recall what they were like at that age and what pivotal events shaped their lives. That pilot will premiere April 17 as part of MTV's "TRL High School Week."
Another pilot, High School Stories: Scandals, Pranks and Controversies,will also premiere that week, April 16. In that pilot, MTV News will explore a prank at a Florida high school in which 12 students planned to unleash 80,000 bees on their school.
Some of the other MTV pilots include a Paula Abdul-led cheerleading-competition reality show; Girl Makes Band, a reality game show in which teams of teen girls handpick and create a band; Lifeguard,a reality show that follows several lifeguards; Homewrecker,where eight contestants move into a house controlled by producers who try to force the housemates out; and Posse, about the lives of those who form the entourages of mega-stars.
"Our new slate of shows represents our ongoing commitment to ambitious, dynamic programming," MTV president of entertainment Brian Graden said in a prepared statement.
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