DC ExtraTime: Someone You Should Know - Geordie Shore's Scotty T.

BY DC CUEVA                     

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Fairly often, ExtraTime helps bridge the gap between pop culture and what's happening right now in taking someone making headlines or just trending and linking them to a person or two of the MTV world who they got to meet or have worked with at one time. And if you're checking out this site from Chicago, you might have heard of a segment that aired on local TV news for many years done by Harry Porterfield, a longtime local newsman and a pioneer among African American journalists.

   First intended as a feature to fill airtime during the slow weekend news cycle, "Someone You Should Know" spotlighted unique people in the Chicagoland area who represent the best of what the Second City has to offer. Porterfield did over 2,000 of these profiles during his 40-year career at WBBM-TV and WLS-TV, during a time where the fallout of him being let go from the CBS station and joining its ABC rival crosstown made minority hiring a top priority in broadcast newsrooms.

   In the same manner that this site does to add some additional insight on the people we cover of the seasons that are airing, sometimes we'll take the opportunity here to help introduce those who aren't known now, but those who we feel you'll known soon. Hence, here's Someone You Should Know...

Two weeks ago saw the successful premiere of Floribama Shore, which we're covering as part of our winter cycle of the Trifecta and for which we brought you episode 3 of that earlier tonight. The practical reason why we are spreading our wings in our MTV coverage to the franchise that was the big thing at the turn of the last decade is because of what was revealed on Wednesday with Vendettas welcoming in new blood to The Challenge.

   Those here in the U.S. know who Snooki, The Situation and the Jersey Shore cast are, but overseas it's just as big for the Geordie Shore cast with social followings in the millions - though they're not as well known here. Those who have are household names overseas: original castmates Gaz Beadle, Charlotte Crosby, Holly Hagan and James Tinsdale; the franchise's own Sammi & Ronnie of Vicky Pattison & Ricci Guarnaccio; the series' Challenge representative and five-season veteran Kyle Christie, and the person of our focus here.

Next spring, Scott Timlin will turn 30 years old, but the world refers to this lad simply as Scotty T.  He first walked into the Geordie Shore house on Season 4 in late 2012 when the engagement of Vicky & Ricci took a detour, James breaking Holly's heart with girlfriend news, and a big fight between Vicky and fellow original Sophie Kasaei. In 2016, wide popular support saw Scotty win a season of what will eventually make its way to the U.S. soon of Celebrity Big Brother. Then, he took a break from the Shore to be part of the fourth season of the other MTV UK show to invade Vendettas this coming Challenge season, Ex on the Beach. And this recently, rumors surfaced of him shooting another MTV International series, Just Tattoo of Us, but paparazzi this past week caught him snorting a substance and exposing himself while filming.

   For a sampling of what Scotty T. is all about, below we have embedded below some of his biggest moments and one-liners from his time on Geordie as well as on Ex, with him currently taking another break for the upcoming season of the Shore coming up in the new year overseas. Perhaps if the trends continue and those from outside the MTV Trifecta continue to invade our shores, we might see him on a Challenge in the future and see what those in Europe have been raving about but those in America have yet to see that much yet.  The first video in this set, all of whom come from MTV's international channels abroad, features facts about Scotty.

DC FORUM Special: Another MTV Reality Ex-Plosion?

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BY DC CUEVA                     

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Welcome back again on this Thanksgiving weekend... Back on Black Friday, we focused on the finale of The Challenge XXX and the premiere of Champs vs. Stars, with one person being the focus for unfortunate reasons. Earlier today, we looked at Week 10 of Are You The One? NOLA, and tomorrow night it's the premiere of the new revival of an old favorite in Floribama Shore - the Southern reboot of Jersey Shore. Now, with a recap of the former still ahead, for a moment let's take a 180 and bring you the one post of this week's wave that is sure to offer plenty of tea.

Ordinarily - as we wrote a few weeks ago, it's our vision here at DCBLOG to focus our attention to the shows we are covering and those that are airing currently, and the stories that go along with them too. We don't use this site much for discussing rumors on future seasons of The Challenge or any other series that feeds castmates into the fifth major pro sport until the moment the buzz for those seasons begin. And only when we feel it is necessary do we get to discuss future matters if we consider it big enough of a deal that we should talk about it here.
   With that in mind - and with a long Challenge season having just ended, another one wrapping taping overseas and the one in between those two now airing, something has been brewing around the MTV hotstove in the past week or so. But instead of talking about who is potentially being cast for a show we love to cover here and you love to watch as much as I do, this one is for something totally different - at least to the American audience. But if you're one of those who visit our great site from outside the United States, then it's likely that you have heard of the show that resembles what happened when San Francisco hosted the total reinvention of the OG of reality TV.
   The very idea of what happened in the very first Real World season we covered here in Ex-Plosion three years ago and what premiered shortly after in the first season of Are You The One? offers the backdrop for this special edition of DC FORUM, where we'll a look at MTV's international dating series, Ex On The Beach, and our thoughts on the new U.S. version of the show that's currently in production right now, and featuring some very familiar faces. You'll want to join us after the jump for all of the juicy details.

DC FORUM Special: Another Invasion of The Challenge?

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BY DC CUEVA                     

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As you enjoy the Monday of your three-day holiday weekend or just going about the start of this week if you're not off today, welcome back once again to Inside the MTV Trifecta on DCBLOG. In the last four days, we've brought you the Pulse of the latest episodes of The Challenge XXX and Are You The One? Six, plus a WRAP of those two yesterday and an ExtraTime doubleheader of music videos featuring members of both of our shows' casts. Now, to perhaps the juiciest post of this weekend's blog wave... we have saved this for last to conclude our look at Week 12 of this cycle.

   As we glide along with a Challenge season that started in the middle of the heat of the summer and has been going along at a slow but still exciting pace along with the first few weeks of AYTO Season 6 as we're now in the month of October, there is already something brewing around what those who know about baseball jargon call the "hotstove" -- the talk that takes place during the winter offseason of fans and media speculating about contract negotiations, re-signings, trades, free agency and the flood of player movement that takes place between the World Series and spring training.
   As Season 30 of the fifth major pro sport approaching its business end of the season starting tomorrow night, filming is already underway for Season 31 overseas… hence our diary for this week was truncated a bit by the absence on social media of some of this season's current competitors. But, from the very beginning of that, there's already been buzz about the potential cast of this season that will air in the new year. Need not worry, you can expect those favorite veterans you're accustomed to seeing give it a go once again.

   But, if you thought the crossover of the third leg of the love experiment of this Trifecta into the fifth major pro sport was something, imagine what it would be like if The Challenge got to welcome more new people and shows into its roll call... one of them doesn't have anything to do with the MTV ecosystem. And on this very special edition of DC FORUM, we'll have our thoughts on Season 31 for all of you to check out, so join us after the jump.