TV BUZZ: MTV's newest cartoon is an homage to the music video-mocking idiots Beavis and Butthead, but without the music videos. Instead, cubicle dwellers DJ & The Fro commentate on the latest viral videos. In my eyes only The Soup can discuss Keyboard Cat and the like, but with all these new web-based shows , only time will tell.

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1. DJ & The Fro @MTV
2. DJ & The Fro on the “One Armed Guitarist”
3. DJ & The Fro on “Horrible Escalator Accident”
4. DJ & The Fro (djfroupdates) on Twitter
5. “Two cubicle jockeys pass their workdays trading viral videos.”

MTV and Belgian ad agency Duval Guillaume are pushing this pair of provocative ads encouraging safe sex. The ads also serve as a timely reminder that it's generally not a good idea to allow sexual partners to sign their names above your genitals. Because it makes you look like a slut.

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1. Via Copyranter
2. Staying-Alive.org
3. Duval Guillaume
4. AIDS Chart
5. More Naughty MTV Safe Sex Ads

Comic heartthrobs Andy “Barry” Samberg and Will “Eagleheart” Arnett go tete-a-tete in this parody for the MTV Movie Awards. Plus, we'd never complain about seeing Andy Samberg sleeveless. That just wouldn't be natural.

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TV BUZZ: The former British model will host MTV's new TRL-ish show (along with a bunch of kids on Twitter). Social network stuff aside, it feels like the kids are getting a better deal with this one than we did with Carson Daly.

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1. Alexa Chung’s New York Mission: Save MTV
2. Meet Alexa Chung, the Carson Daly for the Millennial Set
3. There is going to be a Twitter element to this show, which is just what 12-year-olds need I guess.
4. some Alexa pictures
5. Alexa Chung on Wikipedia
6. Inside her closet.
7. “Can you just tell millions of tweens that their new best friend just moved here from england and is going to be their buddy now? don’t you have to start lifecasting this brand directly into their barbie dream house well in advance?”
8. She was a huge f*cking deal on the London scene before she moved here.
9. Alexa at the BAFTAs (scroll down)
10. The Alexa Chung Show is supposed to “fill the TRL void.”
11. She used to date Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet (who is now dating Agyness Deyn)

TV BUZZ: After Comedy Central slashed the budget of The Sarah Silverman Program , the show's future looked bleak until MTV Networks' gay channel, Logo, agreed to co-finance the show. Finally, someone actually funny (although Buzzfeed readers don't necessarily agree ) might dethrone Kathy Griffin as the queen of gay comedy. …Maybe. …Okay, doubtful, but a boy can dream.

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1. The Show Features a Gay Stoner Couple (Score!)
2. Jewish Damsel in Distress Rescued By Swashbuckling Gays
3. Sarah Comes Back
4. “Why Not a Thirty-something Woman Who Dresses Like a Twelve-year-old Boy?”
5. “The Producers Not Only Have Their Show Back, But They Have an Even Bigger Budget Than Last Year”
6. Sarah Silverman Booed Off Stage

MTV Brazil is rocking some retro-porn for their new AIDS-awareness print campaign. The copy says “Except for AIDS, nothing has changed.” So keep that in mind next time you find yourself in the midst of a crazy-ass Victorian threesome.

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TV BUZZ: Whitney Port's co-workers are complaining about her and her scripted show before it even debuts. Port only “sorta-works” at Diane von Furstenberg and immediately leaves as soon as her scenes are finished. The Hills NYC spinoff also looks nothing like New York, say critics, and somehow the show is even less eventful than its LA counterpart. All this will likely add up to a mega-hit for MTV and an onslaught of “The City” tour buses around New York.

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The Best Links:

1. The City on MTV
2. “She doesn’t really work. she is hardly ever in the office.”
3. Is Whitney Port the new Carrie Bradshaw?
4. The obligatory “The City” think piece
5. “She kind of doesn’t” work at Diane von Furstenburg
6. How Fake is the City and why do we care?
7. Whitney’s NYC looks suspiciously like LA
8. This is Whitney’s well-timed fashion line
9. MTV what have you done to me?

TV BUZZ: It's official: MTV is giving the fratty geeks at College Humor their own TV show, to debut on February 8, 2009. The show will focus on the College Humor office, meaning it will basically be a string of their “Hardly Working” shorts with lush, Hills -like cinematography. Maybe Whitney Port will make a cross-promotional cameo!

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1. MTV’s 2009 line-up: introducing the CollegeHumor show!
2. College Humor show in the NYT (they are legit now)
3. Extended trailer
4. Whoa, We Got a TV Show
5. CollegeHumor Staff Brings their Kegerator to MTV Primetime
6. the Lip Dub heard round the world
7. Jake and Amir - Featured on BuzzFeed

Link: http://gawker.com/5101992/john-norris...

Supposedly one of the 850 layoffs at Viacom today belongs to MTV “correspondent-for-life,” John Norris.

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1. Gay Hero Fired!
2. John Norris - Wikipedia

Link: http://www.bestactever.com/2008/10/28...

The Internet voters have spoken, and (surprise, surprise), it looks like Rick Astley is ahead in the polls for MTV Europe’s “Best Act Ever” award. Rick is going to be performing not one, but two songs - apparently he has another one. Be careful what links you click in relation to this story.

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Here’s a sneak peak at the new MTV documentary, “For The Record,” that gives a behind-the-scenes look into Spear’s whacked-out life. Cameras followed Brit for three months to get footage, which wasn’t even enough time for Britney to answer her self-imposed question, “What the hell was I thinking?”

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1. Britney Speaks: “What The Hell Was I Thinking?” (VIDEO)
2. Back From The Brink, Britney Wonders ‘What The Hell Was I Thinking?’
3. Britney For The Record - A Documentary By MTV
4. ‘Britney: For the Record’: Will you watch?
5. Britney Films MTV Documentary to Set the Record Straight

TV BUZZ: The MTV show — which has suffered increasingly sagging ratings — will end its 10-year-run in November, when it will air a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon. Now where will screaming teenage girls catch a glimpse of The Jonas Brothers? Oh, right — everywhere.

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1. MTV Cancels Its Last Show
2. TRL Ends (“But Will Be Back,” Assure Producers)
3. FNMTV The New TRL?
4. WTF is FNMTV, and Why is It Pretty Awesome?
5. The History Behind 10-Year-Old TRL
6. Remember Jesse Camp???

On last night’s VMA’s, Christina Aguilera “re-interpreted” her first smash, “Genie In A Bottle,” before introducing her new single, “Keeps Gettin’ Better.” Now that she’s no longer vaguely a pin-up girl, it looks like Xtina is embracing the next natural progression: electropop trannie from outer space.

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1. Christina Aguilera At The 2008 VMA’s
2. “Candyman” - From Christina’s “Vintage Skank” Days

MOVIE BUZZ: MTV — the same network that made bisexuality the basis for a game show — is remaking the 1975 cult classic. If Chris Crocker ends up as the “sweet transvestite,” we’re totally boycotting. (Oh, who are we kidding? We’re so watching.)

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1. MTV Readies “Rocky Horror” Redux
2. Casting Notes: Bruce Vilanch To Woo The MTV Generation?
3. “The Time Warp”
4. Hairspray 2: Also Happening
5. New Rocky Horror To Feature New Horrible Music

TV BUZZ: The pseudo-famous skank was rejected by Kristy Morgan, a former Playboy model who couldn’t accept Tila’s “key,” a.k.a. “the opportunity to prove that Tila is so totally bi [on camera].” Tila posted a poem (in real time!) on her MySpace blog, where she dejectedly wrote that “the world will still die.” First she helps establish gay marriage in California and now she references global warming? At this rate, “President Tequila” might be able to teach Dubya a thing or two.

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1. Tila is Ready to Move On …To More Attention-starved Bisexuals
2. Kristy Morgan: In Next Month’s Playboy (Weird Timing, Huh?)
3. So Why Was Playboy Model Kristy Morgan On a Widely-Watched Show in the First Place?

MUSIC BUZZ: After many years of safe-guarding their song catalog, surviving Beatles Paul and Ringo, and the widowed Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono Lennon, are in talks concerning broader licensing. The two principal companies involved are MTV and Activision, respective makers of the video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The agreement would mark a major milestone given the group’s reluctance to exploit their music commercially. People get old, ideological fervor fades…and, hey, it really wouldn’t be that bad if we could all rock out to “Octopus’s Garden” now would it?

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The Best Links:

1. New York Times Editorial Board Weighs In on Rumored Beatles Video Game
2. Beatles seek to join video game revolution
3. YouTube - The Sims Twist And Shout

TV BUZZ: The (generally loved) star of MTV’s high school paper reality show fires back at a Columbia University reporter with a very eloquent letter. Wow, so this is what it’s like to be a Good Communicator. If you’re like me, you probably haven’t crushed out on a girl on a reality show since that one with Lisa Loeb got canceled.

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The Best Links:

1. For Amanda Lorber, I WILL Throw Down With You, Bitch
2. Amanda Fires Back at Columbia University Reporter with Long, Eloquent Email
3. The Paper - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. Amanda’s Freshman Year at NYU - We Smell a Sequel
5. Amanda’s Vlog
6. Friends of Amanda Lorber Unite! Paper Supporters Come Out In Droves
7. Amanda Lorber: Summer Camp Today, NYU Tomorrow
8. Amanda’s Killer Comeback
9. Dear Amanda, Maybe It’s Time to Start Updating Your Vlog Instead of Blowing up at College Reporters
10. “Amanda Lorber, Feminist Hero”
11. Watch the Charming Amanda Lorber Sing Songs
12. I’m Obsessed with Amanda Lorber
13. Amanda’s Profile on MTV.com
14. NY Times Profiles New High School Role Model, Amanda Lorber

TV BUZZ: MTV’s spinoff to My Super Sweet Sixteen will send fan “favorites” to third world countries, where they’ll learn truly valuable lessons in how to be less terrible human beings. With The Paper receiving rave reviews across the board, it was only a matter of time before the network reset their focus on the crux of their most successful programming: spoiled brats.

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The Best Links:

1. Check Out the Preview Here!
2. “The Premise of the Show is to “Punish” Some of the Spoiled Brats from My Super Sweet 16. How? By Giving Them Each Their Own Camera Crew, TV Show, and Mountains and Mountains of the Attention That They So Desperately Crave.”
3. Expect “Exiled” To Be “Earnest,” Devoid of Chihuahuas
4. Another Example Of “Good Things Happening in a Truly Awful World?”
5. Sweet! An Opportunity for Us to Judge These Kids Even More and Feel Better About Ourselves!
6. Must Be Patient. Must Be Patient…

TV BUZZ: MTV’s original reality TV show comes to the outer boroughs. New Yorkers wonder: Will it land in Williamsburg? Some people seem bothered, but then most of the hipsters in Williamsburg already star in a reality show in their heads, so things wouldn’t really change that much.

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1. Inevitable and Perhaps Overdue: The Real World Comes to Brooklyn
2. “The Real World to Ruin Brooklyn this Summer”
3. “This is REALLY disturbing to me.”
4. “I would be very surprised if they didn’t pick Williamsburg.”
5. This Hot Mess Will Air Next Year
6. Sorry, Dudes. It’s Gonna Suck
7. Ugh

TV BUZZ: MTV UK has picked up Fur TV , an adult comedy series about a group of foulmouthed, sex-mad puppets, made by Warp Films. It’s airing on MTV UK this weekend, but there’s plenty of videos online for us non-Brits. I predict imminent cult status, at least among furries.

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The Best Links:

1. Watch a Playful, Lingerie-clad Hottie Have Sex With a Puppet
2. Watch the First Episode Online
3. Puppets that Cage-Fight, Dodge Drug Dealers, Landlords, and Cannibals
4. YouTube - MTV Cribs with Fur TV
5. “It’s fresh, funny and outrageous and will make perfect late night TV”
6. Meet the Characters
7. Watch Fat Ed’s Guide to Metal