Premiering Sunday on MTV at 10:30 p.m., the show features a cast of reporters with disabilities who travel the nation in search of news and celebrities. It’s produced by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park.

The MTV promo includes glimpses of interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hannah Montana, John McCain, Sarah Silverman, Ben Affleck and John Stamos.

There’s also a video preview on Boingboing.net.

An excerpt from a review by Alan Sepinwall in the Newark Star-Ledger:

Whether people are laughing at or with the “How’s Your News?” team is the complicated question at the heart of the project, which has appeared in previous incarnations on HBO and PBS.

The series itself clearly falls into the “laughing with” category. It’s obvious that the production team … have deep reservoirs of affection for the whole group, who suffer from a variety of physical and mental issues.

From a review by Roger Catlin in the Hartford Courant:

… because “How’s Your News?” is produced, in part, by the people behind “South Park,” it may make viewers think the cast members are being held up for ridicule.

… But its producers say the show strives to demonstrate how its cast has a sense of humor, too, especially about their own disabilities.

And just because people have special needs doesn’t mean the material always has to be reverently handled, the producers say.

Earlier post here.

(Photo of Sean Costello, Jeremy Vest, and Robert Bird from MTV)

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