Word: mtv
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Osbournes, MTV's hit "reality sitcom," would be good enough if it only gave you what you would expect--flying meat, crucifixes on the doors and enough bleeped-out cursing to give Pat Robertson the vapors. And it does. What makes it brilliant is its surprising mundanity, the Pat Boone-y-ness of it all: Ozzy puzzling over the satellite-TV remote, flipping out over Kelly's new tattoo (while sporting a few acres of skin art himself) and struggling to fit liners in the trash...
Rock-'n'-roll fantasy meets take-out-the-trash reality: this is why The Osbournes (Tuesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.) is the most successful new series in MTV history. Its ratings are up 57% since its premiere; 5 million people tuned in to last Tuesday's broadcast alone: Total Request Live-watching teens captivated by the dotty uncle they recognize from his annual Ozzfest tour, old-timer Black Sabbath fans tickled to find the band's singer still breathing. More important, it has done the near impossible: got viewers excited, in a Didja-see-it-last-night? way, about...
...executives--even MTV's--about The Osbournes, and they will tell you the channel got lucky in a way you can't duplicate. (MTV will have to drop the show after one season unless the family consents to another; the network may stretch the 10 planned episodes to 13.) This is true in the literal sense: when Ozzy was created, he bit the head off the mold. NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker says, "I don't think you can just do The Lees now, as in Tommy...
...broader sense, what MTV has done right is a case study in what TV often does wrong. The Osbournes is the oldest thing on TV since the test pattern: a nuclear family that eats meals together, shares its problems (even if every third word is bleeped) and survives wacky scenarios. The family dogs are peeing on the carpets, so they call in a pet therapist! Jack goes to a hippie sleep-away camp and hates it! (Kelly: "They make you feed a tree before you feed yourself." Ozzy: "How the f___ do you feed a tree...
...them look like they belong in a Volvo ad (drivers, not passangers.) Another book, [title here] catalogues the “golden age of video games”, reflecting perhaps the simultaneous vogue of the eighties and video game culture. The Final Fantasy music video played on MTV. Movies based on video games proliferate: the truly awful but entertaining Tomb Raider, the less awful, more entertaining Resident Evil...