Tonight I happened across the TV program “One Ocean View,” on ABC. I didn’t watch much. Basically a bunch of young twenty- and maybe thirty-somethings live in a house together for a summer.
MTV’s “Real World” is the first reality TV show I can remember–and it has been essentially self-sustaining, continuing to run since the early 1990s. “One Ocean View” is ABC’s premiering show that has exactly the same premise.
I bet if ABC bought syndication rights to MTV’s “The Real World” season one they could show it and it would do as well.