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“Buckwild” star Shain Gandee found dead

In a grim discovery Monday morning, one of the stars of MTV’s controversial reality series Buckwild was found dead in a vehicle on a dirt road near Sissonville, W.Va., where the series take place, The Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail reports. Shain Gandee, 21, was one of three men found in the vehicle, with the other two being identified as Shain’s uncle, 48-year-old David Gandee, and Robert Myers of Sissonville. No cause of death has been reported, but foul play is so far not suspected. MTV released a statement upon hearing the news, with spokesperson Candice Ashton saying, “We are shocked and […]

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CMT debuts Buckwild marathon, My Big Redneck Vacation After Show March 9

Buckwild fans, you’ve got a brand-new, country-to-the-core place to see your favorite series in one loud, proud, mud-splattered run. CMT will a marathon of the entire first season of the top-rated MTV series — featuring the homegrown adventures of nine West Virginia friends — this Saturday, March 9, beginning at 3pm as the lead-in to an all-new episode of My Big Redneck Vacation at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Buckwild became an instant hit for MTV, filling the Thursday night time-slot vacated by the series finale of Jersey Shore with the fresh — and frequently knuckle-headed — exploits of a whole new batch of […]

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MTV renews “Buckwild” for Season 2

Updated April 11, 2013, 12:10pm CT UPDATE 4/11/13: In the wake of Shain Gandee’s death, MTV has canceled Buckwild. Surprising no one, MTV today announced the pickup of its hit reality series Buckwild for Season 2. Since its premiere last month, Buckwild has quickly filled in the Thursday night gap left by the departure of the network’s popular Jersey Shore, ranking as the No. 1 original cable series on Thursday nights among P12-34, pulling in an average of 3 million total viewers per episode. The series follows a group of nine friends living in West Virginia, who find their own […]

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First ten “Buckwild” episodes air in MTV’s five-hour “BuckBowl” on Super Sunday

Of course, most people know that Feb. 3 is the date of Super Bowl XLVII. But that is also a day when other networks counter-program against the big game, hoping to draw in people who are perhaps uninterested in football, or maybe want to flip away if the game is a blowout. Networks certainly don’t waste this time on trotting out new programming, knowing the historically huge ratings the Super Bowl generally brings in — that would be viewership suicide for such a show (a rare exception might be Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl, now entering its ninth year, but even that […]

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“Buckwild” on MTV drawing great ratings, demos

Who is watching Buckwild on MTV? Believe it or not, millions are tuning in weekly to the reality show, and most of them are women. For those of you who have been living in the woods, Buckwild (Thursdays, 10pm ET) is a cross between Jersey Shore and Jackass that has even upset a congressman representing the state. Nine West Virginians in their 20s ranging in jobs from a trash collector to two tanning salon employees have their weekly exploits filmed for our viewing pleasure. Fights break out, clothing is discarded, and there is a lot of hooking up (yes, even between the women). […]

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BUCKWILD girls photos: MTV’s latest hot messes

BUCKWILD girls Shae, Cara, Ashley, Anna, Katie and Salwa star in MTV’s new reality series about friends living it up in West Virginia. Get More: BUCKWILD, Full Episodes MTV is replacing its reality TV staple Jersey Shore with a new series that’s just like Jersey Shore if it were set in the backwoods town of Sissonville, W.Va. BUCKWILD, premiering Thursday, Jan. 3, at 10pm ET/PT, follows nine young, adventurous friends who do things like transform dump trucks into pool parties, build human slingshots and go muddin’ with their four-wheelers. RELATED: MTV renews Buckwild for Season 2 RELATED: MTV’s Colin Nash […]

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MTV’s Colin Nash on Buckwild: “We aren’t trying to make a show about the state of West Virginia”

Everybody in tiny Sissonville, WV — population 4,028 at last check — knows affable, hardworking young Shain Gandy as the town’s “unofficial mayor” who skipped out on being prom king so he wouldn’t miss work. Beginning Jan. 3, MTV audiences will know him as the central star of the network’s newest kids-on-the-loose docuseries, Buckwild. But, says Colin Nash, MTV’s West Coast vice president of series development, this isn’t simply a downhome Jersey Shore. “It offers a completely new and unique world that our audience hasn’t really seen before,” he explains of the show brought to him by Zoo Productions and […]