Just as Cartoon Network wouldn’t play the Worlds Scariest Police Videos, a channel like Oh! Oxygen (women’s entertainment) wouldn’t show Girls Gone Wild commercials. So why is it a channel named MTV (aka Music Television) can get away with rarely ever playing actual music?

Anyone who has watched MTV knows their line-up of shows day-to-day consists of scripted ‘reality’ shows, 10 second music video clips between shows, and flat out poor-taste programming. So why is the channel so popular? If you are expecting an answer from me, I don’t have one to share. It’s odd how today we are so fascinated with watching other people’s lives. Many people spend countless hours watching a camera following someone else around. The person the camera is following never looks at the camera, which is expected but what is really strange is that even when the person the show revolves around is at, for example a party nobody at the party acknowledges the camera crew who is taping the party. That leads me to believe that the said reality show is more of a movie and less of a ‘reality’. Shows guilty of this are The Hills, and Laguna Beach, scripted ‘reality’.

Then they play shows like Parental Control, where a parent is upset with their child and tries to set them up with two other people, while the significant other watches them on the date. Who on earth would realistically go through that? Nobody. The show Next is just as bad, what girl would really date some guy who shows up on a bus? They wouldn’t, the show is scripted crap yet more and more are captivated by it every day.

I prefer to watch shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, 8 Simple Rules, Seinfeld, and the like. Why? Because that is good programming, not junk that tries to pass itself off as reality on a channel called Music TV.

(MTV Daily Line-up, shows containing music are circled in red)
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If you really want to watch Music on MTV, either wake up early or tune in for an hour in the afternoon. Otherwise its reality show junk.