DC Playlist: Now United's "Let the Music Move You", and the Eighteenth Member

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A couple weeks ago on here, this fanatic of reality TV took a break from covering that world to one of my other passions of music, and help introduce a group that might not be as well known in America as they are in much in the world, but they are one that's rapidly growing across our planet. Now United was created in summer 2017 by Spice Girls and American Idol creator Simon Fuller, comprised originally of fourteen singers & dancers from fourteen different countries, but whose roll call expanded last year to include three additional members from Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Since our post on them back in mid-April, Now United has further spread its wings around the globe by adding its eighteenth member to their family, and also got to talk to MTV's YouTube channel back on its weekly Friday music livestream with host Kevan Kenney. The three members who joined the band last year were all girls -- Savannah Clarke, Nour Ardakani and Melanie Thomas. But if you were in the shoes of any of the five guys who are trumped by the group's twelve girls, then you must've been felt being in the minority of sorts... though all's not bad given the mania the Uniters fan base have for this collective.

It was after Melanie joined the group last fall than the process began once again for XIX Entertainment, and where this time the search for #NowUnited18 would turn to finding the sixth boy in the group to join this global supergroup. It was most especially true when the Philippines' Bailey May and Canada's Josh Beauchamp were the only two guys for most of the group's stay in Abu Dhabi and Dubai last fall, and after the group agreed that the ladies would take the lead in the global search, the process began when they left the Middle East and continued into the spring.

The Look Ahead: Ex Goes Snow, a Floribama Newbie, and a Vegas Pool Party

 CAUTION: This Post Contains Potential Spoilers, Please Read with Caution Below. But No Worries, It's Only Small & Minor Ones with Just Cast Info. 

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We are now officially into the month of October, and we are now well underway with the new year in television -- that is, as far as those who are in the business of operating the networks see it. The cheapo, low-budget reality series that entertained us this summer have given way to the big major scripted shows with their new seasons, but there is still plenty for us to be engaged with on the reality side of things.

Fairly soon - or right about now, those shows that debuted and premiered during the summer will give way to new seasons and series on the unscripted front. And while we here at DCBLOG always keep our feet in the present covering the weekly Pulse and the stories behind the story of the shows that are on now including The Challenge, we're also keeping our eye on what's ahead. That's the subject of this latest installment of The Look Ahead - discussing spoiler-free (or at best, just small minor spoiler) rumors surrounding upcoming MTV series on occasion around our week-to-week content.

In a moment, we'll be taking a first peek at the next season of Ex On The Beach, someone new coming to Floribama Shore, and the return of the girls who competed for the hearts of the Jersey Shore bromance. So yet again, join us for a serving of some tea around the autumn hotstove.