MTV Is Rebooting 'The Real World' for Facebook Watch

MTV, perhaps best known for rebooting and reviving its own old shows, is at it again with a new 'Real World' set for Facebook Watch.

MTV's The Real Worldis being "reimagined" with a trio of new seasons set to begin next year.

The new seasons will be available for those interested enough to fork over their time exclusively via Facebook Watch. Mexico, Thailand, and these shitty United States have been announced as the locales from which the original MTV mainstay will explore things like "friendship" and "social environments."

"MTV's The Real World helped to define a generation and created a new genre of television with a simple yet powerful idea of connecting people from wildly divergent backgrounds to find common ground on the issues that often divided them," Chris McCarthy, President of MTV, said during the Facebook Watch presentation at MIPCOM 2018 in Cannes this week. "By partnering with Facebook Watch and BMP, we have the opportunity to impact culture and create a new genre of television all over again, while engaging the next generation of content consumers around the world."

Via Facebook, viewers will be given the chance to vote one housemate onto the show. The new episodes are set to begin rolling out in Spring 2019. News of a digital reboot of The Real World first broke back in June viaDeadline.

This Real World return arrives during what has been a particularly nostalgia-driven programming period for the MTV brand. Earlier this week, we learned that Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's son Brandon Thomas Lee had joined the cast of the Mischa Barton-starring revival of The Hills. The network's Jersey Shore revival is already on the air.

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