"The Real World" gathered its original cast in the same New York apartment, where modern reality TV was born -
Paramount +
Considered the founding program of reality TV, the show
The Real World
of the American music channel MTV brought together the members of the very first edition, of 1992, for a spin-off entitled
The Real World Homecoming: New York
and proposed on the new Paramount + streaming platform.
Six episodes will be available.
Before 1992, several channels had already tried the experience of reality TV;
but no show had yet had the impact of
The Real World
, which has done a lot to allow MTV to remain relevant to a young audience, enticing advertisers, broadcasters and producers, to the point of declining the recipe ad infinitum. .
Seven young people, aged 19 to 26, who did not know each other, sharing, for three months, a huge loft in Soho, and filmed almost permanently.
This was the principle, now classic, of the 1992 program.
Time to go back to where it all began!
Join the groundbreaking original cast of @RealWorldMTV as they return for #RealWorld Homecoming: New York streaming March 4 on Paramount + https://t.co/HeU74uKEh0 pic.twitter.com/JJUJbtVniO
- Paramount + (@paramountplus) February 26, 2021
The return of
The Real World
evokes what it was in its beginnings, a window on real life, a moment of authenticity when television offered only manufactured objects.
It also recalls the gap between this first season and what has become of reality TV today, where artifice and excess have prevailed over everything else.
And for this reunion,
The Real World
confirms that under its light side, with young people well of their person, idealistic and often naive, it offered what has disappeared from many variations of the genre: a little background.
"It was the first time, apart from the coverage of the movement for civil rights that we saw, on a TV show, blacks and whites have discussions on the issue of race and racism," argues Kevin Powell, one of the two black participants of the first season.
Candidates who have become respectful and mature
"When we had an explanation, it was a debate," remembers, in the first episode of the reunion, Rebecca Blasband, the "Becky" of the first season.
“It's different from a rat race where two people don't listen to each other.
"And this new cuvée is even more different because, three decades later, affection and respect have settled between these seven quadras or quinquas, as well as maturity, all of which are conducive to dialogue, which has become rare in an American society. polarized.
"I'm not sure we could sell it today," said its co-creator, Jonathan Murray, of the original show to
The Hollywood Reporter
magazine site
in 2012. It's almost too pure, without much. things that make noise.
Today, you have to make it something loud enough that it can grab people's attention.
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