They're amazing, K-C.

Welcome back to another episode of Reality Life with KKC.

Hope to do it a great weekend.

I am dying to talk to you about the real world, and I have been waiting to talk to you about

the real world.

Did you know that MTV Music Television Network was launched in 1981 and aired mostly music

videos?

But looking to cash in on the success of soap operas, TV producers Jonathan Murray and the

late Mary Ellis Puneum, who produced several daytime soaps, worked on a half hour scripted

series called St. Mark's Place, and it was about a group of young adults living in the

East Village that was ultimately rejected by the network's executives due to its costly

budget.

So instead, they pitched a low-cost solution known as the real world.

And its log line was simple, a serialized documentary about young people, all artists,

from diverse backgrounds, living in a New York City loft.

And the series would introduce its subjects like television characters and create its own

dramatic story arc, though as Murray put it, growth and conflict.

This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a loft, work together, and

have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting

real.

The real world.

Becky, a straight white female folk singer, Andre, a straight white male indie rocker,

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