MTV Deports Sweet 16 Brats For New Show Exiled [Dose Of Reality]

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The Telefile - My Super Sweet Sixteen: Third World Edition
Published 5/14/2008 at The Telefile
... on this show are too young to have embraced the concept of "slumming it" yet and/or have not yet discovered the rich-kid rite of passage that is the Peace Corps. Then again, the idea here is not to help communities in need, but to rehab a gaggle of bratty girls and break them of their silver spoon habits. You know, the important stuff! At least we can rest easy knowing the answer to that age-old question of what to get the girl who has everything. A case of dysentery! Based on the clip (courtesy of ...

Dose Of Reality.
Published 5/15/2008 at OH NO!!
... in the works that might just rival our love for The Paper. Remember all those over-privileged spoiled brats from My Super Sweet 16? Well, MTV has enlisted kids from past episodes to star in Exiled. The hook? In each episode, each one of the kids is sent to a different third world country to live with a family and "learn" the meaning of hard work and the meaninglessness of material possessions . The comments of the foreign families are priceless. Clip found at the SOURCE.

Reality TV Gives Back? [Trends]
Published 5/15/2008 by Richard at Gawker
... , in which rich folks infiltrate poor neighborhoods undercover, see what it's like to live as the other half, and at the end give out at least $100,000. Well isn't that nice! Charity is on an upswing. Oprah's Big Give, American Idol Gives Back, and even that new MTV show Exiled (wear some brats from My Super Sweet 16 travel to impoverished places and learn life lessons), are all about "selflessly" doing penance for one's own privilege. What's going on here? Why are these types of shows suddenly so ubiquitous? ...

MTV's Exiled Is Your Birthday Present
Published 5/15/2008 at Videogum
MTV has a new show coming out this August called Exiled in which the aging failures of My Super Sweet 16 are sent to live in a house and find out what really happens when people stop being brats and start having to eat mud cakes. Here's the trailer, guys, and it looks great: (via Jezebel) You have to give MTV credit where credit is due. My Super Sweet 16 is an insufferable offense to mankind, and an advertisement for eugenics, which I used to think was a horrible program but My Super Sweet 16 opened my eyes. In the ...