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MTV announces new Aussie “reality drama” Freshwater Blue

Move over Jersey Shore and The Hills... sexy girls and hunky guys from Sydney's Northern Shores are about to be hitting television screens.

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Move over Jersey Shore and The Hills... sexy girls and hunky guys from Sydney’s Northern Shores are about to be hitting television screens.

MTV Australia will premieres a new “reality drama” series, Freshwater Blue, in December.

It describes the series as “a real-life entertaining, humorous and sometimes gritty, fly on the wall look at the lives of 12 young adults from Sydney’s Northern Beaches.”

Featuring nine females and just three males, it joins a genre of shows in which cameras follow the lives of real people, promising issues such as relationships, friendships, peer pressure, drinking and sex.

The development of the series has been the subject of speculation for some time. It will also include some locations on the Gold Coast.

While it is unscripted, the genre often involves situations that are assisted by Producers.

Rebecca Batties from MTV Networks Australia says, “After seeing a webisode that had been trialled by production company Freehand, the MTV team and I instantly loved it. We knew intrinsically that if we added MTV’s trademark production values, we could take it to a wider Australian youth audience through MTV. Freshwater Blue’s appeal is that it’s a 100% truly Australian – and 100% real life.”

Creator and Executive Producer, Toby Yoshimura, originally from New York, says “The show is what the cast has made it. It is all stories told from the heart and is 100% real life. My hope is that Australian audiences will get behind and love the uniquely Australian cast members as much as I do”.

Yoshimura has previously worked on Saturday Night Live and The Jerry Springer Show.

Cast member Nicola Johnson, says “It wasn’t all just fun and games – having to deal with my break up from a five year relationship was a big deal. It was hard enough anyway but it really wasn’t easy to go through that on camera. It was then that I realised how real this show was.”

Freshwater Blue is MTV Networks Australia’s first series commission.

It premieres in the rather low profile timeslot of 4:30pm Thursday December 2nd on MTV.

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  3. Omg gosh! Northern beach peeps!

    Stereotypically, they’re white, rich, spoilt and only know how to party…

    Why not do something in the west where people have ‘real’ issues?

    Just hearing about this show makes me feel stupid…

  4. I think this is great. Glad MTV is commissioning an original Australian series for once.

    Jersey Shore is a ratings giant for MTV. Regularly beats network and broadcast TV in both total people ane demos in the US.

    Though not sure how it rates in Australia, my guess is it is probably MTV Australia’s top rated show. If this is even half as successful as Jersey Shore for MTV AU, I think they will be happy.

  5. True, but David I doubt even SBS would stoop to the lows of MTV. I mean you can’t drop below rock bottom.

    @ johnjet. Thanks for that, I thought it would be along those lines.

  9. Congrats to all commentators, especially Son, Stu & Mike, for some of the funniest and pithiest comments I’ve read in a long time. LOL x1000!
    You people are the reason I read this blog. You give me faith that somewhere, somehow, a small island of sanity and perspective is still afloat in this sea of sh%t that is media entertainment.
    More power to your fingertips.
    Oh, and bad cess to this stinkbag of a series that can’t be axed too soon for my liking.

  10. On a different note, how can this show air at 4:30 and involve sex? Where’s the classification codes?

    It amazes me that people get high and mighty about an unbelievable cardboard lesbian on Home and Away that only kissed a woman, yet this sort of crap gets through the filter without a care in the world.

    Priorities as usual I see.

  11. Why do these networks insist it is ‘reality’ and ‘fly on the wall?’ It is scripted trash aimed at those with low intellects and a hunger for trash tv. I realise we all have different tastes and opinions, but really this is just pure, unadultered sh*t that will add nothing to Australian values and life, except the degradation of intelligence and the reinforcing of pitiful stereotypes. Though I guess this is MTV we are talking about, so no surprises.

    MTV AU must be in dire straits if they feel the need to commission home grown programmes to try and lure audiences.

    All is forgiven SBS.

  21. Hmm, I’m glad to see MTV making original content but this is a massive gamble.
    Let’s look at the shows you have offered for a comparison:
    Jersey Shore – I doubt there is one person who could say they care for any of the people in this show, they are all so awful that I would like to believe it to be close to impossible to actually watch this show seriously. And that’s coming from a massive fan.
    The Hills – not a fan at all of this, but I can imagine that it was the close inter-group bitching that made this show successful, because it was quality “real” drama. With 12 people, that can’t be replicated. I also imagine that it has an element of what made Jersey Shore successful, as I refuse to believe there to be anyone watches it with a serious concern for the future of Heidi and Spencer.

    So, unless these people have terrible personalities that make them so cringeworthy to watch that it’s humourous, I can’t see this working as a huge success.

    Find 6-8 people, with the right (well no, the really really wrong) personalities and stick them in a house together on the Gold Coast.

  23. Once again Australia demonstrating no origianlity. If this is a hit then god help us. Usually it is FTA making poor decision not Foxtel, oh well guess their time has come

  24. oh god.
    as a big fan of the Hills and massive loather of Jersey Shore, i can safetly say that this is gonna tank. Big.
    not only does it have a really dumbass title, but 12 people!? The Hills worked fine enough with 4-5!! Not even Laguna Beach had that many douches :\

    Keep Trying MTV…

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