MTV Sinks to New Lows

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If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know my opinion of MTV. Just put MTV in the search box on my blog and see what you come up with.

MTV’s plans for a new show this summer only cements my opinion of them. The show, ‘Hard Times’ is about a young teen with a large… (how do I write this without sending everyone’s content blockers crazy???) … a large piece of anatomy in his trousers.

Yes. I’ll let this article from the LA Times fill you in. Here’s just a snippet:

Can a well-endowed teen make MTV hot again? The youth-obsessed cable network, seeking to stem a years-long ratings slide, thinks it has found just the thing to get back on track: “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” a scripted comedy about a boy with an, um, anatomical “gift.” The show, billed as a cross between “The Wonder Years” and the R-rated comedy “Superbad,” is a raunchy coming-of-age tale about a nerdy teen who achieves notoriety among his high school peers when they discover that he has a rather large…

Yeah… you can read the rest of the story here.

Sigh.