Britain Gets Its Shot At Outcrassing The US

Britain Gets Its Shot At Outcrassing The US

“It’s fantastic that the UK is going to be the first international MTV territory to take inspiration from the cultural phenomenon that is Jersey Shore and reimagine it for a UK audience.”
 — Knifecrime Island is finally on the receiving end of our trash, rather than the other way around, as MTV Networks UK & Ireland announces plans for “Geordie Shore,” a reality show set in Newcastle and based on the sophisticated American anthropological experiment that is “Jersey Shore.” Casting should be a snap; reports out of Britain’s National Health Service show that the “number of young drinkers ending up in hospital with a serious liver problem has risen by more than 50% in the last decade,” a “generational shift” that doctors blame on binge drinking among the young. (Hear the tragic tale of Rich, a 19-year-old who bruised his liver, here.) Experts predict that the stateside phrase “GTL” will be revised for Britain to stand for “glass, throw up, lacerate.”

Photo by jamesjin, from Flickr.