Next Real World: Philly
 

So what if the Eagles didn't make the Super Bowl--Philly's not going entirely unnoticed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...en_tv_eo/13420

I can see this being a mess already.

Olde City huh....interesting!

KimL I can see the same thing. :rolleyes:

Where all my Philly heads at?!?! LMAO

It could be worse. They could have used Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
:o

I know their house is going to be amazing. I probably won't watch the season though. There is only so much drinking, hot tubs, and threeways that I can take. MTV is sticking to a formula far too much and Real World has totally lost its appeal. Since the passing of Mary-Ellis Bunim, they definitely will not be changing up the characters any time soon.

She passed??? When??? :eek: :eek: :( :eek:

Last week. There was a thread in Entertainment (CC sub forum).

I just read the thread. Thanks.

:( :(

I was sorry to hear that she had passed.

I'm done with the Real World, its all fake now, and the characters (b/c that is what they are) are just not appealing to me.
(although the brotha walking around with the Free Brad shirt on was quite giggle-inducing) lol

How come?

Re: Next Real World: Philly
 

NOOOOOOO!! I don't want them to come to my home. :mad: Oh well. I wouldnt be surprised if they were giving some warm Philly welcomes while they're filiming and stuff...

Shooooooo.....
 

I went to school in Pittsburgh, and there ain't a damn thing to do there.

Because everyone is already talking about it. Everyone is trying to find out where they will be living in Olde City already, and they radio stations are already trying to figure out which restaurant they will be working in. I don't know, I just see as being a mess, but I will watch because hey it's Philly my part of town...:D

Real World in Philly? Good grief....

A hot mess waiting to happen...

They ain't neva comin to DC :( ....why? Because they already had a black season of the Real World. It was called.....























Making the Band 2



LET EM FIGHT!!!! LET EM FIGHT!!!!!







AIN'T ENOUGH ROOM!

See, why you make me laugh out loud, and I never ever say making the Band

3rd and Arch St.

Come on now, if they did come to DC, where would they stay???? You know these fools down here would PURPOSELY act a fool and mess with them. Plus, they're not gonna let somebody FILM on the streets of DC, too much evidence LOL

she ain't lying
 

girl , you telling the truth on that one. there is such a thing as too many O fries. But you gotta admit that you miss them crazy burgers from the Hill district :D :D

Real World Philly
 

HC it's so true that there isn't a dang thing to do in Pittsburgh? I went to school there as well and anyplace where the buses stop running at a certain time..good grief!!!:rolleyes:
I remember when I first started school there and I went to the pizza shop around the corner from my school. They said they had a cheesesteak. Well, imagine my horror when they bought out this thing that they tried to pass for a cheesesteak!!!WTH!:eek:

Re: she ain't lying
 

Dang girl I forgot all about those O fries with gravy.

Re: Real World Philly
 

Imagine my horror when in my freshman year I ordered a hoagie, and this warm thing was in my bag. I was totally thrown off. No more hoagies or cheesesteaks until I would come home.

That hoagie horror also happened to me!lol I should have learned my lesson with the cheesesteak!!

MTV show abandons Philadelphia

By Michael Klein

Inquirer Staff Writer


Philadelphia proved a little too real for The Real World.

After squabbling with local unions, the producers of the MTV series yesterday gave up on Philadelphia as the site of its 15th season. Taping was to begin in three weeks.

"After considerable evaluation, we are disappointed to announce that Bunim/Murray Productions has decided not to shoot The Real World in Philadelphia," a spokeswoman for the company said yesterday afternoon. She declined to elaborate.

MTV's selection of Philadelphia was accompanied by unbridled civic rejoicing when it was announced Feb. 26. City leaders believed that The Real World, with its huge audience of 12-to-34-year-olds, would boost the city's cool factor and help it retain recent college graduates.

But within four days, Bunim/Murray had incurred the wrath of the unions by hiring a nonunion company to renovate the former Seamen's Church Institute in Old City, where the cast was to live.

The series had sidestepped organized labor in 13 previous cities, including union strongholds New York City, Chicago and Boston, without incident.

"Every other production company comes in, sits down and bargains," said Tony Frasco, vice president of Teamsters Local 107, whose members drive and unload vehicles. "The unions are not out to gouge anybody, but this is a union town."

It's a matter of "preserving the way of life in Philadelphia," said Pat Gillespie, business manager of the Philadelphia Building Trades Council.

Sharon Pinkenson, head of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, worked years to bring The Real World to town. She said she had been aware that Bunim/Murray wanted to go nonunion.

"I recommended that they speak with other producers of nonunion reality television" who had worked here, Pinkenson said. She said work rules in reality TV tend to be looser.

Pinkenson said she did not know if Bunim/Murray sought the advice of those producers.

The MTV series' high profile may have heightened the unions' interest. When it came time to set up the building, next to the Betsy Ross House at Third and Arch Streets, Bunim/Murray hired a construction company that had been picketed by the carpenters at other job sites. That set off fireworks.

For two weeks, Teamsters, painters, carpenters and electricians picketed. A source close to the situation said Bunim/Murray was leery of striking a deal because it would set a precedent. The company also believed the unions might stage an on-camera protest during the four months of taping.

The pullout not only affects MTV, which was to debut Real World Philadelphia in September, but it could give a black eye to the city and its growing film and TV production industry.

Mayor Street disagreed. "I don't know it would be the end of the world," he said.

Bunim/Murray had planned to tape here through July. The company's spokeswoman said she did not know which city would replace Philadelphia.

The Real World broke ground for unscripted reality television when it debuted in 1992. Each season's seven cast members, ages 18 to 24, become household names as they are followed 24 hours a day, frolicking in hot tubs, hitting the bar scene and taking on nominal jobs. The show has been No. 1 in its time slot for seven consecutive seasons among 12-to-34-year-olds: That's four million viewers.

Meryl Levitz, head of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp., said last month that she expected The Real World to aid in her work with the Knowledge Industry Partnership, a college-student retention initiative.

If MTV chose a cast that "young people see as similar to them and presents Philadelphia as hip and desirable... you can't buy that kind of publicity," she said.

The pickets at the Real World building targeted Apple Construction of Holland, Bucks County. Bunim/Murray obtained from Common Pleas Court a preliminary injunction limiting the number of pickets at each entrance. And union leaders, including electricians union head John Dougherty, began talks with Bunim/Murray.

But the preparatory construction - which reportedly was about 70 percent completed - was only part of the unions' issue. The Teamsters demanded jobs once taping started.

Frasco, of the Teamsters, listed a number of locally shot TV and movie projects that have used union labor, including the CBS series Hack and Cold Case; the recent M. Night Shyamalan film The Village; and the forthcoming film In Her Shoes.

"If [Bunim/Murray chooses] to leave Philadelphia, that's their business," Frasco said. "It wasn't because of the unions. They'll just go to a town that will allow that."

The Real World's departure comes less than a year after the city, state and unions resolved a crippling labor controversy. At the Convention Center, union labor costs and ugly jurisdictional disputes chased away repeat business. New labor rules were negotiated last summer.

Since then, only one major trade show has booked a multi-day stay, the first in five years. The center is still trying to regain business from large professional associations. Many that came to Philadelphia from 1998 through 2000 did not return because of labor costs.

Philadelphia is the last bastion of union construction trades in a region that was a stronghold of union activity until the 1970s. Most construction in the Pennsylvania suburbs is done by nonunion workers.

Informed of Bunim/Murray's pullout, Jeff Zeh, president of the Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of Associated Builders & Contractors Inc., which represents nonunion contractors, said, "What else is new in Philadelphia?

"You saw the list of the cities where they've produced their projects, and Philadelphia is the only one where they had a problem," he said. "It really is a sad commentary."

"We ask for fair wages and benefits, and [then they] make a fuss and take their ball and go home - what kind of real world do they represent?" said Gillespie, of the Building Trades Council. "We'll be called the Neanderthals and the pug uglies because of what we're trying to do."

MTV should try Atlanta or Houston.

Yeah they were picketing outside the building all last week. It was a hot mess. Damn, I was really looking forward to seeing the Real World Philly.

And/or Dallas. These three cities I'd definitely love to see seasons on, since I can't participate in the show.......:(

or bunim/murray could use the tactic of "simple life": pick some real "hick" town (insert whichever town you like, cause im not getting beat up!) and let em rip!

why not toronto? if real world can go to paris, then they can surely go up north to canada.

i mean theyve hit all the a-list (and perhaps some b-list) places. so pick some real small towns... weve taken pretty much every routh there is in reality TV, so what have we got to lose?

ooh, ooh! how about juneau, AK?

@ tld221
 

it was supposed to be filmed in dallas (my hometown) a few years ago but i don't know what happened.

if they came down here to houston (my current residence), i'd love to see where they would party and work.

Re: @ tld221
 

me either, but how many heads would have the chance to live in alaska for 4 months?

it was worth a try. :cool:
carry on...

Re: Re: @ tld221
 

That is true. It would be worth a try. Just as it would be worth a try to tape the show in another foreign country. Not sure of which location would be good, though...

They can come to Charlotte. :cool:

Re: Re: Re: @ tld221
 

i'd recommend that they stay in the states. the further out the travel the more boring the season!!!!

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or the more chances we have gettin out a$$es kicked. (as always) america isnt #1 on the world's list right now.

and real world has taped outside the country, but they cant do it all the time.

why dont they go to wisconsin or south dakota, or even indiana? i speak for myself, but id live in any of these places for 4 months (then again, ive only known nyc, so i may be speaking out of stupidity). im up for something new...

maybe i should audition for the show...:confused:

they might be staying in Philly

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d_philadelphia

Yeah the mayor met with MTV/the union reps all yesterday to try and get them to bring it to Philly as planned. I mean that is a lot of money and exposure that the city would be loosing if they don't come here, so they need to go head and get it together.

PHILLY IS ON THE MTV MAP
 

'Real World' Agrees To Return To Philly
Mayor Plays Go-Between For Unions, Producers

POSTED: 12:32 p.m. EST March 23, 2004
UPDATED: 5:26 p.m. EST March 23, 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- The city of Philadelphia confirmed that an agreement has been reached to keep MTV's reality show "The Real World" in the City of Brotherly Love.

"There is no better place to live, work or visit than the city of Philadelphia. Its history and strong neighborhoods make Philadelphia the real 'Real World,' and we look forward to this great production," said Philadelphia Mayor John Street, who was instrumental in brokering a deal that healed the rift between Bunim/Murray Productions and Philadelphia.

According to the sources, all of the union issues were resolved and compromises were made on both sides. The unions have agreed not to demonstrate and they've agreed "The Real World" house will have a blended work force. Some workers will be union and some will be nonunion. Philadelphia officials met Monday night with the representatives of Bunim/Murray Productions, the producers of the MTV show. The company pulled the show out of Philadelphia just three weeks before production was to begin because of a battle with unions.

"On behalf of everyone at Bunim-Murray Productions, MTV and 'The Real World,' I would like to thank Governor Rendell, Mayor Street, Congressman Brady, Michael Barnes from IATSE, John J. Dougherty from the IBEW, Pat Gillespie from the Building Trades Council, City Controller Saidel and everyone else involved in getting us to where we are today. I am pleased that season 15 of 'The Real World' will be produced here in Philadelphia, as originally planned," said Joey Carson, chief operating officer of Bunim-Murray Productions.

Street shuttled between two meetings Monday night. In one room were producers from the production company and in a second room were representatives of various Philadelphia unions, including John Dougherty of the Electrical Workers Union and Pat Gillespie of the Building Trades Council.

The governor of Pennsylvania was also involved in making peace.

"Recognizing the economic impact that 'The Real World' can have on our city and state, I am thrilled that the young people's voices were heard and we were all able to come together and be able to announce today that 'The Real World' and seven strangers have chosen Philadelphia to live," said Gov. Ed Rendell. The unions were also pleased with the decision.

"I'm happy that 'The Real World' is going to shine a spotlight on Philadelphia -- one of the best kept secrets in America. It's been a pleasure working out the details with the mayor and Joey Carson's team at Bunim-Murray Productions," said Dougherty, of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

"The Real World: Philadelphia" will premiere on MTV in the fall of 2004. The show is the longest-running reality series on television.

Why?
 

Why is that cities don't want the Real World to be tapped there? I don't understand what the big deal is. What reasons do they give for not wanting them to tape in their city?