Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted July 2, 2012 Moderators Share Posted July 2, 2012 MTV is about setting trends, youth culture and all that shit. We're not as young as we used to be and aren'tas much the target audience. You'll get over it, I'm sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted July 2, 2012 Moderators Share Posted July 2, 2012 MTV have become what they hate basically. Â What? How did you come to that? MTV are a money making machine, I doubt they hate that. I mean what MTV represented and was against while now they play shite like 16 and Pregnant. Â You mean what they represented when they were showing Singled Out? Or when they were showing wrestling? Or when they hardly shown any black artists videos when they very first started? Â What were they representing then? Your overly romanticised view of MTV pre-Pimp My Ride is a bit bollocksy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 2, 2012 The wrestling especially had to be seen as some kind of dodgy side show. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T running around in swimming trunks is arguably as bad as 16 and Pregnant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 The Maxx, Aeon Flux, Most Wanted and Headbanger's Ball seem to resonate the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted July 3, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 3, 2012 Â I only had the four channels until I was 16, like most people who have a dad who despises everything American, so I only saw what Channel 4 decided to nick and a few things around friend's houses growing up. Bevis and Butthead was probably my favourite, but I did like Celebrity Deathmatch for about ten minutes in the early 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmcstyles Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 MTV is about setting trends, youth culture and all that shit. We're not as young as we used to be and aren'tas much the target audience. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra1000 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Wrestling Society X obvs. Â I havent read the whole thread but anybody mentioned MTV Select? I think it was called that, it was the chart rundown on in the afternoon with Lisa Snowdon and Richard Blackwood and a few others, good presenters not some stupid hipster pricks like on T4.I'd always watch it coming home after school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I've been watchng Wrestling Spociety X and would actually agree. It's badly acted and consists of a thousand spots per match with no selling, but you can't help but smile at it, because it's a good laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 3, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 3, 2012 This has served as a reminder why I hate MTV these days. Some terrible shows there. Celebrity Deathmatch for me I guess, I used to watch it a bit back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted July 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2012 It's B&B for me too. To this day, anyone performing a sound check instantly puts me in mind of "testes... testes... one, two.... THREE??" Â I havent read the whole thread but anybody mentioned MTV Select? I think it was called that, it was the chart rundown on in the afternoon with Lisa Snowdon and Richard Blackwood and a few others, good presenters not some stupid hipster pricks like on T4.I'd always watch it coming home after school. Â It was a request show, I remember it very well. Donna Air presented it, I think Edith Bowman once or twice covered, I have memories of it being one of the shows that gave us our first look at Cat Deeley, or "VJ Cat" as she was named in FHM etc, VJ standing for "Video Jockey" (never really took off as a job description, did it?). Nostalgia is a wonderful thing though, in hindsight I'd say all the presenters (Air especially) were capable of being every bit as vacuous as Jameela Jamil et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2012 I fucking love the suggestion that Richard Blackwood was a good presenter. He was the best car boot Will Smith the telly had to offer, but he right fell off his stool in recent years. Â I tell you who was dreadful on that show; Natalie Casey. Was just a sign of the shite to come from her, looked like she missed the cut for Vanilla, and was a massive step down from Lisa Snowden, taking away the opportunity to choke the chick chick chick chick chicken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2012 Will Smith didn't have a rhyme as memorable as this: "say my name girlfriend, yeah we love you RB - check you every day on MTV/*radio edit* TV". Blackwood was class, because he was thick as shit. He would always expose himself as such on shows like Have I Got News For You, or by whoring himself out to the point where he couldn't see he was getting the piss ripped out of him. I thought that was a likable quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2012 Lovely review of the Princes of Comedii video that Blackwood has stooped to being involved in. In a perfect world, King Richard IV would be paraded down the street so that we can all thank him for making the transition from 20th to 21st century just a little easier, and then for getting out of the spotlight before his time was up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ah, Richard Blackwood. Â Who the man? You the man! Who the camera-lady? She the camera-lady! And do we like player haters? No we do not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Pepper Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Does Remote Control count? I know both English and American versions where made by MTV but where both shown on Channel Four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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