MTV's "Jersey Shore in Appalachia" reality
series "Buckwild" had a very brief and very
unhappy lifecycle. It launched amid censure
from critics and lawmakers, over its largely
cheap depiction of kids from rural West
Virginia communities. It concluded
ignominiously, with one cast member
arrested on drug charges , and another dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning , the results of
a tragic accident unrelated to the filming of
the show. One week after that cast member,
Shain Gandee, died, MTV opted to cancel
"Buckwild."
Since this crass experiment in rural poverty
voyeurism ran badly off the rails, one
would imagine there wouldn't be a rush to
recreate it. Well, one might be wrong. A
memo obtained by The Huffington Post --
authored by Katie Zwick of the Creative
Artists Agency, delineating "network needs"
to their client production companies --
indicates there is still a strong interest in a
"Buckwild" redux. More specifically, the
memo describes a "BUCKWILD replacement
i.e. a show set in the south with loud,
unpolished, young kids" -- among other
ideas.
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