You gotta wonder why they bother.
MTV on Tuesday announced its latest entry into the talk-show arena, something called the “Middle of the Night Show,” which will be hosted by CollegeHumor’s Brian Murphy and will feature Murphy and his crew “crashing the bedrooms of unsuspecting celeb🍸rities” for their interviews.
Good times.
Since launching Tom Green to (fleeting) A-list status in 1999, MTV has had little success with the talk-show format. Its latest casualty, “” — hosted by Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer — was canned after a nine-month run in 2013💯.
Here are five examp🅷leಞs of MTV talk shows that were quickly buried.
‘The Jon Stewart Show’ (1993-94)
Yes, yes. Five years before he rocketed 🦹to fame as the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Stewart hosted a talk show on MTV before the same show moved into syndication. ’Nuff sa♏id.
‘The New Tom Green Show’ (2003)
Green returned to MTV three years after the initial run of “The Tom Green🅺 Show,” but this one lasted only 51 episodes before the hammer fell.
‘It’s On With Alexa Chung’ (2009)
The British TV personality꧑/model hosted this short-lived affair, which integrated an online element into its format, for six months. No one cared.
‘The Seven’ (2010-2011)
An attempt to capture the flavor of “Total Request Livꦯe.” It didn’t.
‘The Show With Vinny’ (2013)
Yep, Vinny Gu🃏adagnino from “Jersey Shore” fame hosted this talk show for two months (May to July) before the plug was mercifully pulled on the hybrid — in which Guadagnino interviewed cel🗹ebs from the living room of his house on Staten Island, while his friends and family looked on.