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Well, buckle your dirt-bike belts or something, because MTV has a new show coming to the airwaves called Buckwild, and our first glimpse of footage from the thing suggests that we're in for a bumpy ride straight into a mud-filled ditch. Y'see, it's a reality show about a bunch of wild 'n' crazy West Virginia young people. They're not Hatfields and McCoys-ing each other, exactly, but they are hookin' up and gettin' drunk and doin' stuff in mud. There's a lot of mud in this first trailer. Just a lot of mud. So this is a bit like Jersey Shore in that it's a look at a niche sect of American youth, but it's a found situation rather than Jersey Shore's assembled cast. So in that way it's like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, TLC's Jack & Bobby-esque reality look at our future president. As much as one might want to complain about the dang thing, it also looks kinda fun. What with a cute steppin' out "man whore," a goofy nice guy, some good old fashioned girl fights, and some dumb kid rolling down a hill in a dang tire. Let's all get our noses out of the air and admit that this could be a good ol' time on the telebbision. Sure, we might be chuckling at some perfectly harmless blue collar fun, but look, they're laughing, too. Ain't nothing wrong with that then, right? [Entertainment Weekly]
We heard a while back that Stephen King's novel Under the Dome, about a small town that exists under a big dome (hence the title, Under the Dome), was going to be a TV series, but now comes the news that it's going to CBS, of all places. See, it was going to be at Showtime, but it got stuck in development, and since Showtime and CBS are owned by the same company, it makes perfect sense to switch it over to CBS, where it will be a 13-episode summer series. Except, well, it doesn't make that much sense, because CBS is not terribly good at big, creative, conceptual things like this. Give them a CSI or a brightly lit Chuck Lorre sitcom and they know just what to do, but trickier stuff often thwarts them. Well, most of the time. Sure The Good Wife is very smart network television, and Elementary is kind of a hoot, but boil those down two shows and they're nothing but case-of-the-week dramas at heart. This Under the Dome, however, sounds like more complicated business. Maybe because this is supposed to be a limited-run series they can be a little more daring or creative than usual, but I dunno. Seems dubious. Any chance they can throw it back to Showtime? Or has the dome already closed? [Vulture]
