| The Real World: New York | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
 The cast of The Real World: New York | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | May 21 – August 13, 1992 |
| Season chronology | |
The Real World (retrospectively referred to as The Real World: New York, to distinguish it from subsequent installments of the series) is the first season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It was created by producers Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray.
The cast consisted of seven people, ranging in age from 19 to 26, most of whom were already living in New York City when the series taped.[1] The cast was filmed living in a SoHo loft from February 16 to May 18, 1992,[2][3] and the series premiered May 21 that year. The series consisted of 13 episodes.[4] This is the first of three seasons to be filmed in New York City. In 2001, the show returned to the city in its tenth season, and again in 2008 for its 21st season,[5] set in the borough of Brooklyn. In 2021, the original cast reunited for The Real World Homecoming: New York.[6]
As the first season of one of the first series in what is now considered the reality television genre, The Real World: New York is sometimes credited with pioneering some of the conventions of the genre, including bringing together a group of participants who had not previously met, and the use of "confessional" interviews with participants to double as the show's narration (though in the first season, the confessional interviews were sparse and were not taped in a separate, private room, as would become common later).[1] Some, however, have credited an earlier series, the 1991 Dutch TV show Nummer 28, for these innovations.[7]
- ^ a b Blake, Meredith (June 6, 2011). "This is the True Story...". The A.V. Club.
- ^ The Real World Diaries. Pocket Books. 1996. p. 210.
- ^ "SoHo Loft". realworldhouses.com. November 28, 2010
- ^ The Real World: New York: Full Episode Synopses and Recaps. MTV. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
- ^ Sicha, Choire (May 13, 2008). "The Real World: Brooklyn. For Real." The New York Observer.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (February 26, 2021). "The Original 'Real World' Cast Reunites, Older but Still Not Polite". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 26, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
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