After a lot of buildup that stretched all the way to
an Idolator reader poll, I watched Pete Wentz's effort to bring videos back to MTV,
FNMTV Premieres, on DVR-delay Saturday morning. And it was... OK. Friday night's premiere didn't result in ground-breaking TV by any stretch, but it wasn't completely awful despite the musical presence of both will.i.am
and the Pussycat Dolls. The biggest complaint I had, really, was that the show was full of filler; Anthony's prediction last week that the hourlong show would air seven videos
in toto was actually over the night's tally by three. (A few older videos got a bit of screen time, but most of the music within was papered over by Wentz's explaining the clips and the collective "whooooo"ing of the
well-manicured crowd.)
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As Chris Molanphy mentioned in today's TRL post, the overnight block of videos on MTV seems to have disappeared from the channel's schedule. As part of our endless commitment to using the power of statistics to figure out just what the heck is going on at 1515 Broadway, we looked at MTV's video-airplay statistics to figure out if the channel was completely devoid of music, or if it just seemed that way.
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