I didn’t GAF about the show, but a story I scrolled past said it was cancelled after 46 seasons. I thought, “it was on since 1980???”. No, it was 46 seasons in 14 years. I gave up looking for an explanation of how you get 46 seasons out of 14 years. Is it the “new math”?
While broadcast television has an annual cycle for t.v. show “seasons” for various historical reasons, cable (and now streaming) ‘seasons’ (or ‘series’ as the British sensibly refer to them) can occur on different and completely arbitrary timeframes.
I’ve never seen the show in question but my understanding is that it has long comprised the majority of ‘programming’ for MTV. So, may I assume that MTV is also being disestablished?
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Survivor has two seasons per year, which is how they have season 50 coming up when they started in 2000.
I have never heard of the show you are talking about.
Evidently the show is just hosts reacting to videos of feats gone wrong, so it was cheap and easy to produce. The Wikipedia article shows how many seasons/episodes per year (under Episodes).
My teenage son loves this show. He’s exactly the demographic for it. No wonder us old fogies never heard of it.
I’d never heard of it either. They made almost 1700 episodes of it though.
Maybe their swanee whistle broke, and they had nothing else left to offer.
I have heard this is about the only thing that airs on MTV, which is essentially a dead network at this point.
What are they going to air now?
Reruns of the show.
Feats, don’t fail me now!
I’ve watched it on occasion and I am am old fogey(ette). They’d run a series of clips with a similar theme- say, someone falling off a bike-and mock them, as said above. Usually the clips involved someone doing something stupid which caused the mishap. It was about as low-budget a show as you could get, since all the videos were found on-line. It could be amusing in small doses but not something I would make a point of watching.
I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of this show. From your description, it sounds sort of like a cross between America’s Funniest Home Videos and Ow! My Balls!
Yeah, it was something you could put on in the background and not really pay attention to. It’s also on like 20 hours a day on MTV, so the whole channel must be shutting down. Rob Dyrdek can be funny, but they really should have ended it when Big Black died.
Eh - call me when TruTV cancels “Impractical Jokers.”
I forgot all about that show. Thanks?
I’ve never seen it but the description reminds me a bit of Tosh.0 (formerly on Comedy Central) or The Soup (formerly on E!).
They could maybe get some popular songs, and get the artists to produce videos that go along with the songs, and show those?
Sterling was good but it was annoying with Chanel’s giggling.
Pretty much, I think. I used to watch The Soup(and Talk Soup) and even Tosh.0 when it was new. Those, at least to me, had a very cutting, sardonic humor that made them enjoyable.
Come on, now. Don’t be ludicrous.
When anyone can go to YouTube and see whatever music video they want, the MTV of old is no longer needed.