Twenty-nine years after they essentially invented reality television, the original seven strangers from MTV’s first season The real world are coming back for a new season of the show. The Real World Homecoming: New York will debut at Paramount Plus streaming on March 4.
It will feature the full cast (Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, Eric Nies and Kevin Powell) returning to their original New York loft to catch up and reveal how the groundbreaking show changed their lives .
“The real world is credited with creating the genre Reality TV and was one of the first series to address important but unrepresented topics such as LGBTQ, race, gender, HIV / AIDS and religion, ”said MTV Entertainment Group President Chris McCarthy in a statement . “With Paramount + being home to so many successful global reality franchises, it seems appropriate to bring back the franchise and the cast that started everything for the launch.”
There hasn’t been a new season of the show since The real world: Atlanta debuted on Facebook Watch in the summer of 2019 and didn’t generate much interest. “We are somewhat victims of our own success,” said Real World co-creator Jonthan Murray. Rolling Stone in 2014, when the show already showed great signs of rust. “The idea was that we were going to put seven different people together and that would result in conflict, and from that conflict growth would arise. Well, we’ve been doing this for so long that our audience is used to diversity. “
Meanwhile The real world has been slowly disappearing for almost a decade, the spinoff series The challenge (originally the Real World / Road Rules Challenge) only grew in popularity. It features reality TV veterans from around the world competing for a big cash prize. Season 36 was filmed in Iceland during the pandemic and debuted in December with high ratings.
According to fan reports, the next season will bring together “OG” Challengers who haven’t been in the series for a long time, including Real world former students like Beth Stolarczyk from the incarnation of the show in Los Angeles. And although there is no official word on follow-up Homecoming in the real world seasons, Real World: Hawaii Cast member Amaya Brecher tweeted in December that she had been contacted by the producers.
“They are trying to get us to do a 2-week reunion show for Real World Hawaii,” she wrote. “Apparently, someone thinks that a bunch of people in their 40s, who mostly live a quiet life, could offer attractive content. I disagree… “
“Get ready for the possibility of seeing the exciting things I do,” she continued, “like: Embroidery! Propagating plants! Stretching / listening to click sounds emitted by my body! Adjusting my anxiety remedies for a new schedule in a different time zone! Shopping for the mummy! “