Who Are These Newbies? - All-Star Shore: The Brits, the Mexicans & the Brazilians

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BY DC CUEVA                        

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Right now, summer 2022 in MTV Reality is going into overdrive as not one, but three all new series are debuting within the space of a couple weeks: Buckhead Shore was first to debut over a week ago, while this coming week sees The Challenge come to primetime network TV for the first time when CBS hosts a new spinoff featuring its reality show alumni just as All-Stars 3 is drawing to its end on Paramount+. And on that streamer, All-Star Shore is premiering as an all-new competition show featuring reality TV's finest... and we at DCBLOG now enter half #2 of this edition of "Who Are These Newbies?," as we turn from the ones who we know from watching American reality TV to those outside of our borders.

For this interesting tidbit: the MTV Shore series was a concept originally conceived by 495 Productions founder Sally-Ann Salsano and intended to be a VH1 competition show... but when she saw the cast that she put together was so good that summer of 2009, she decided to keep them all together for a Real World-like docu-series... and the rest is history: the show and its Seaside Heights location are American cultural landmarks. It's also grown into a franchise that has spanned eleven different regional variations including a German/Swiss series that aired last year in Europe in addition to four in Europe, three in the U.S., and two in Latin & South America. And here in the U.S., we'll have the pleasure of enjoying three different Shore shows at midweek this summer, as its Wednesday episode drops mean All-Star Shore will actually serve as the appetizer to Thursday night in both Family Vacation and Buckhead Shore.

After the break, we will turn the focus to those from outside the U.S. in six of those who come from Shore shows that, until now, were relative outsiders to those of us on this side of the Atlantic... so do two others who have gained enough fame outside of the MTV ecosystem to earn their way to the Canaries.

Who Are These Newbies? - All-Star Shore: The Ones Who We Know...

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BY DC CUEVA                        

■ @DC408DXTR  @ IG/YT/SC/TB/TK

Tomorrow -- a few hours from now for some of you, the second all-new series to premiere in MTV's global Shore franchise within the last week will debut when Paramount+ will play host to the show's first worldwide entry to the streaming service, All-Star Shore. It's a first-of-a-kind "party competition series" that mixes two popular forms of reality TV: living it up in a party house, and a big-bucks competition show... and familiar faces to the MTV audience from three different iterations of the franchise will join those from outside the network for this bold new show that is truly unlike any other.

Coming into summer 2000, the reality genre consisted of MTV fare, Cops, America's Funniest Videos and a handful of shows that were here and there. But CBS' successful gamble to put on Survivor and Big Brother during the least-watched portion of the television calendar helped bring a form of programming previously successful in Europe and overseas into something that not only dominates our summer viewing habits, but also during the traditional September-to-May schedule too... and it's now popped up in the new world of streaming. And continuing in a recent MTV Reality show trend, this fact will be reflected in fandoms from all around the dial converging for this social experiment.

As we count down to the premiere, DCBLOG has a longstanding tradition of introducing those who many of us are getting to know for the first time with this thing we call, "Who Are These Newbies?" -- a primer on MTV rookies with background, insight and visuals. This feature has focused on around 200 personalities since we began in 2013... and more will be added to this total both this and next week when over twenty CBS reality alums compete on The Challenge: USA. And after the break, we give these global reality stars their first closeup with the first part of our focus on these All-Star Shore newcomers... starting with a man who comes here from another summer reality tradition.

Inside MTV Reality: It's A Party at the All-Star Shore

BY DC CUEVA                        

■ @DC408DXTR  @ IG/YT/SC/TB/TK

Summer 2022 is now officially in full swing thanks to the long weekend that mixed both Father's Day and the second observed Juneteenth holiday, plus the longest day of the year of the Summer Solstice -- and now, Pride weekend as the LGBT month of celebration wraps up amidst a divided America after what happened yesterday. Summer also means that the reality genre is front and center on the broadcast television calendar, which includes another spinoff of the fifth major pro sport: MTV's The Challenge: USA will debut just after the 4th of July on CBS, and that is only part of a busy summer for those at what is now Paramount Global will have on the reality front -- on television and on streaming.

One year ago, the re-merger of CBS and Viacom into one company once again brought the Eye network, MTV and their various networks under the same umbrella, as well as a blockbuster movie studio that now bears the company's name of Paramount. Wherever you go, their impact is just about everywhere: the fact that Top Gun: Maverick broke box office records over the Memorial Day weekend signaled the return of the communal experience of watching movies at the local cineplex... and soon, another rite of summer will begin in an all-new season of Big Brother, along with that new Challenge that we at DCBLOG will be previewing next week all while Season 3 of All-Stars rages on.

Back in 2009 after waving farewell to the ten-year run of Total Request Live in Times Square, MTV reinvented itself once again as a spot in December offered a glimpse into the channel's next decade: at around the same time as the premiere of the first installment of the Teen Mom franchise, Jersey Shore debuted with no idea that it would not only overtake The Osbournes as the most-watched show in channel history, but also become a pop culture phenomenon. Think back to 2009 and 2010, and you can imagine that the cast was just about everywhere... and to go from being lampooned for the stereotypes it portrayed when it premiered to being loved a year later. It's why the show still radiates over a decade later... and you can see proof of it in the Family Vacation spinoff that began four years ago.

Ever since, the Shore franchise has become a global name: 2011 saw the debut of the British equivalent of Geordie Shore, followed by Warsaw Shore in Poland, Acapulco Shore in Mexico, Gandia Shore in Spain and Super Shore with housemates from the ladder two shows living together. And five years ago prior to the Vacation, Floribama Shore debuted down in Florida which was then followed just this week by its cousin Buckhead Shore outside of Atlanta... and more localized versions are planned for later this year in Australia, Argentina, Colombia and elsewhere to join the just premiered Rio Shore in Brazil.

It's with the expansion of this marquee franchise from one that was originally filmed for VH1 in the summer of 2009 into a global phenomenon that offers the backdrop for the latest addition to the Shore series... and one that will bring together those from different versions of these shows, plus even a few from outside of this ecosystem, for a competition show unlike any other. And if the three All-Star Challenges and the upcoming CBS one are something for us in Challenge Nation, then what happens by the Shore here will be the perfect summer pleasure.