From the New York Daily News:

“How’s Your News?,” an upcoming series on MTV, features a team of reporters with disabilities who take a bus across the country and interview people (including some celebrities) along the way.

“South Park” creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are the executive producers for the unscripted series.

“… It has a rebelliousness in terms of attitude, it feels fresh, it feels inventive, and it’s really about a group of people working together to live their dream and have fun along the way,” said Tony DiSanto, executive vice president of series development and programming at MTV.

“These are characters that you really do fall in love with,” DiSanto added. “Initially, because it’s different, you’re not sure, but three minutes in, you’re along for the ride. It’s just infectious.”

See also:

Brilliance and The Beast – by columnist Andrew Ryan in the [Toronto] Globe and Mail

Ryan writes from the annual TV critics tour in Los Angeles that “How’s Your News?” has critics “buzzing, and slightly uncomfortable.”

The laugh factor of How’s Your News?, if there is one, seems to be that the amateur reporters have no idea where they are, or what’s going on around them.

… There was at best nervous laughter during the MTV press session for How’s Your News?, accompanied by the unspoken feeling that the South Park boys may have exceeded even their usual bad-taste boundaries. This time Parker and Stone are not laughing at the less fortunate, but they aren’t laughing with them, either.”

(Photo of  Sean Costello and Robert Bird, from New York Daily News)

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