12 Angry Viewers
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12 Angry Viewers was a television show in the United States on MTV between 1997-98.
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Premise
12 "Angry Viewers" were chosen. Through the course of a week they would watch several "brand new" videos and vote at the end of the episode which was the best. On Friday the best video out of the four chosen during the week was chosen and put into "heavy rotation" on the network. In actuality the 12 viewers filmed five episodes over the course of one day, after being selected from a group of walk-in auditioners who did a "test viewing" in an obverved room.History
The show was on during a period when MTV was being heavily criticized for not playing as many music videos as it had in the past. In an attempt to remedy this problem, 4 shows were created that centered around videos: 12 Angry Viewers, MTV Live, Say What?, and Total Request. MTV Live and MTV Total Request would later be combined into MTV Total Request Live, or simply TRL. Say What? would be turned into a Karaoke competition gameshow and renamed Say What? Karaoke. But 12 Angry Viewers was cancelled.Reasons for Cancellation
Most people thought that the show was cancelled because of a lack of new videos to play everyday. This is far from true, since MTV gets hundreds of new videos a week and only plays a few. The show was often criticized for being "snobbish" and "lame". People didn't like the opinions of the 'angry viewers' and the control these 12 individuals had over the videos that were in heavy rotation. Often they would pick videos that wouldn't have been popular otherwise, and lacked wide appeal.A Russian version of the show premiered in late 2000.
Artist whose preimere on MTV was on 12 Angry Viewers
- Ben Folds Five - "Brick"
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