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Fresh Show . MTV's newest battle show featuring used Real World and Road Rules cast members is getting a fresh approach as 12 veterans of the shows are pitted against 12 "fresh meat" participants for the biggest cash prize in the challenge's history. Last night MTV premiered the preview special where we are introduced to the 24 players as well as glimpses into the drama this season. Here's your lowdown.

For those not wanting to know spoilers of the first episode, then scroll down until you see...

Right now, all this week, MTV Overdrive is giving us a sneak peak at the 1st episode where we find out about another twist. The fans of the series assume that it is 12 versus 12 but here's the twist... the veterans had to choose one of the fresh meat cast members to be on their team thus creating 12 teams of 2 with one veteran and one fresh meat newbie. 2 teams on each side will make it to the final challenge to compete for the big prize.

The prize... for 1st place... $250,000 bucks, 125,000 per team member. But if 4 teams make to the final challenge... and 1st place is 250,000 bucks... wait... I get it, out of 4 teams, only one wins! Everyone else loses. Fuck that's going to be good TV.

Shane, a returning gay cast member from Road Rules: Campus Crawl, was almost paired with the only gay fresh meat cast member, Ryan. Expect Shane to jump on Ryan quickly because Shane has complained in previous challenges that there are not enough gay cast members for him to... do whatever he wanted to do with them.

At the beginning of the first [and possibly every] challenge the host uses a bingo type device to pick a team that will then control which teams goes first to last. Based on the first sneak peak it seems The Real World: Austin's couples [Danny & Melinda and Wes & Johanna] are all targeted as threats.. you know because they sleep together.

We all find out that this season's elimination challenge is tiled "Exile". Not as original when it comes to reality shows because we all know this past season of Survivor was labeled "Exile Island". I'm unclear how Exile works but its where 2 teams will go to battle each other.

Next we find out from the sneak peak that Coral is already having fun with Austin's Danny. When he reads the clue for the first challenge to everyone he says the word "partner" with his thick Boston accent and Coral asks "What's a padner" which makes everyone laugh... except Danny who looks at her with no smile or amusement. It was hiliarous.

Coral's partner in the challenge is body humpable Evan, the 20 year old beef cake with eyes of wonderment. If we Real World addicts think back to the casting special before Coral's season, you know where they got everyone in this big house thing. Well Coral ended up making out with a white muscled country guy in the pool and cameras followed them to the shower where... things happened.

Well Coral then made it onto the Back to New York season where she met Mike. She was obviously attracted to him because as everyone says, we pick on those we secretly love to fuck. It turns out that after the show she & Mike became fast friends with questionable thoughts as to whether they were friends with benefits. Now as she moves to this new season, assuming she's boyfriendless, Coral selected the fresh meat boy who looks, from a great distance away, like Mike and her casting special hook up. Can't wait to see what comes out on the show or at least at the reunion special.

Also, one cast member not seen or heard from much in the sneak preview but seen repeatedly in the preview special clips is Johnnie, the Brooklyn native who states on his bio that he wants to be the "next great black entrepreneur". Usually they hardly show a contestant in any reality show in the 1st episode because they usually make it further in the game and the editors have to focus on the storylines of the people who won't make it far. He's either just uninteresting or a pitbull in the challenges that the veterans need to worry about. Oh wait, he's paired up with Tonya... fuck. So long Johnnie.

As for the theme song this year the producers opted for a techno sound rather than punk rock crap. I actually like it as I like most of their songs but at least this new tune won't get annoying every week... and every repeat airing

Finally, Blair's AfterShow is finally getting official MTV airtime. I actually hate the show and would prefer the fantasy game where we win a car than MTV funding this bullshit talk show but since enough people download the show on Overdrive MTV is giving it a chance right after the 1st episode premieres.

Tune in for everything on Monday May 29th at the Ten Spot!

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Channel 912 . Tune into Channel 912 on GuyTVBlog.com every Tuesday for new media clips slash reality show entertainment. Today's clips comes from past MTV Movie Award shows. The all new award show for 2006 premieres June 8th!

1st clip features the popular Sex and the City Matrix parody while the 2nd clips features last year's Best Kiss winners on stage. 3rd clip features Jack Black & Sarah Michelle Gellar singing "Movies Kick Ass" and the 4th clip features the funny 3 way clip between Lindsay Lohan, that OC guy and that scream horror queen.

Posted by guytvblog at May 23, 2006 12:15 AM

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