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"Real World" Does Denver
The Real World is ready to join the Mile High Club.
MTV has announced that the 18th season of its whiny-roommates series is setting up shop in Denver for the upcoming season.
"Denver has absolutely everything we could hope for--diversity, activities, energy and nightlife," Lois Curren, executive vice president of MTV series, said in a statement. "We're sure that the character and spirit of this picturesque city will be endlessly compelling to the seven roommates and audience alike."
Probably. But potentially more compelling will be the half-naked, hook-up-ready roomies, primed by the aforementioned activities, energy and combination.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for Denver to showcase our cultural and recreational vibrancy to a very large, young audience," Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said.
"MTV has made an outstanding choice," seconded Colorado Governor Bill Owens.
The cable net's signature series will make Denver's lower downtown area its home base for four months over the summer, with production scheduled to kick off next month.
The show has already been cast, though the identities of the seven strangers, as well as their place of employment--which in the past has run the gamut from radio stations to Arena football teams to marinas--are being kept under wraps.
The announcement of Denver as the show's next locale was something of a surprise to those following the preproduction of the granddaddy of reality shows--speculation focused on Detroit as the setting for the 18th season.
Hickenlooper, though, learned of his city's casting earlier this month.
"The thing that's so appealing about it is that they consciously let the city become a character in the show," he told the Denver Post. "Every city has its own personality and idiosyncracies, and they come out in the show."
MTV is currently airing the 17th season of the show, filmed in Key West during last year's hurricane season (as if there wouldn't already be enough drama). The show is currently the highest rated on the cable net, and earning some of the series' best ratings.
Surprising though it may be, the selection of Denver, like Key West and Austin before it, follows a pattern of production straying from the major cities of seasons past.
Then again, The Real World had lackluster ratings with its forays to London and Paris and is running out of major U.S. cities.
First airing in 1992, the show has already touched down in Los Angeles, New York (twice), Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Las Vegas, among others.
The Real World: Denver joins the ranks with a 24-episode stint on MTV this fall.
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