MTV Sinks to New Lows

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know my opinion of MTV. Just put MTV in the search box on my blog and see what you come up with.

MTV’s plans for a new show this summer only cements my opinion of them. The show, ‘Hard Times’ is about a young teen with a large… (how do I write this without sending everyone’s content blockers crazy???) … a large piece of anatomy in his trousers.

Yes. I’ll let this article from the LA Times fill you in. Here’s just a snippet:

Can a well-endowed teen make MTV hot again? The youth-obsessed cable network, seeking to stem a years-long ratings slide, thinks it has found just the thing to get back on track: “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” a scripted comedy about a boy with an, um, anatomical “gift.” The show, billed as a cross between “The Wonder Years” and the R-rated comedy “Superbad,” is a raunchy coming-of-age tale about a nerdy teen who achieves notoriety among his high school peers when they discover that he has a rather large…

Yeah… you can read the rest of the story here.

Sigh.

About Jonathan McKee

president of The Source for Youth Ministry, is the author of numerous books including the brand new Candid Confessions of an Imperfect Parent, Ministry By Teenagers, Connect: Real Relationships in a World of Isolation, and the award winning book Do They Run When They See You Coming? He speaks and trains at camps, conferences, and events across North America, and provides free resources for youth workers internationally on his website, TheSource4YM.com.
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One Response to MTV Sinks to New Lows

  1. Ryan Klein says:

    so pitiful!

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