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The OG cast of the MTV reality show The real world have come together for a new edition of the series and you won’t have to wait long to watch it. The Real World Homecoming: New York, featuring all seven participants from the show’s first season, it debuts on March 4 as part of the first day of Paramount +, which will soon be released. Although specifications on format and length are scarce, RW Homecoming it will consist of several episodes and was filmed on location in the same loft Soho where the now infamous seven Gen-X strangers met 29 years ago next week. A source familiar with the format says the cast spent “several days” together recording the show, which will feature them getting together to “revisit the shocking moments and explosive issues that occurred during the historic season and discuss how they compare to the social climate. of today”.
News from Real world The break up was first reported on January 21 through the reality show message board Vevmo, with Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred filling in more details later in the month. While Paramount + and MTV Entertainment Studios are currently just confirming the production of this project, a source confirms to Vulture that it wouldn’t be wrong to read something about the title Homecoming in the real world – namely, that next month’s premiere will be the beginning of a new franchise of Real world cast meetings. (Dehnart offers more details as to why this is.) Launching the project on Paramount + instead of MTV makes a lot of sense: the public most interested in the new show probably hadn’t watched MTV on cable for years, and the buzz surrounding the the meeting can be a good way to boost enrollment. It also fits MTV Entertainment Studios’ strategy of mining existing IP for new projects. “With Paramount + being home to so many successful global reality franchises, it seems appropriate to bring back the franchise and the cast that started it all,” said Chris McCarthy, president of the MTV Entertainment Group.
In case you forgot (or are too young to remember), Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, Eric Nies and Kevin Powell were the first seven people to dive into the cocoon of The real world in 1992. Although it was not the first time that cameras followed strangers for weeks on end, the series marked the first time in the United States that producers adopted the now familiar reality show soap opera style to tell their story for several weeks. The series was an instant hit among Generation X audiences and helped set the stage for future game changes, such as Survivor. There have been 32 seasons of Real world produced and aired on cable TV and one produced for streaming (2019 restart for Facebook Watch). Jonathan Murray, Julie Pizzi, Erica Ross, Kevin Lee and Trish Gold from Real world Producer Bunim / Murray are executive producers of the new show, along with Sitarah Pendelton-Eaglin, Candida Boyette-Clemons and Nadim Amiry of MTV Entertainment Studios.