{"id":1045,"date":"2011-03-17T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2011-03-17T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:41:49","slug":"whoa-mtv-bringing-back-%e2%80%99120-minutes%e2%80%99-or-hell-is-freezing-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Whoa, MTV Bringing Back \u00e2\u20ac\u2122120 Minutes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or Hell is freezing over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/widget.uproxx.com\/b\/5\/http:\/\/warmingglow.uproxx.com\/?attachment_id=24698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"matt-pinfield1\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.wg.uproxx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/matt-pinfield1.jpg\" height=\"319\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Even if you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend the \u00e2\u20ac\u212290s listening to Superchunk and Jeff Buckley, you probably remember \u00e2\u20ac\u0153120 Minutes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the two-hour program that focused on alternative music and last aired on MTV in 2000 (it moved to MTV2 before going off the air in 2003). And now MTV has announced that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bringing the show <em>back <\/em>to MTV2, along with host Matt Pinfield.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MTV2 will air a brand-new monthly version of the trailblazing music program with a weekly online counterpart dubbed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153120 Seconds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/widget.uproxx.com\/b\/5\/http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/\">MTV Hive<\/a>. Both will be hosted by Matt Pinfield,&nbsp;the walking musical encyclopedia and industry veteran whose original \u00e2\u20ac\u0153120 Minutes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d run made his name synonymous with the best of college rock, indie rock and everything else under the umbrella of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alternative.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so excited that \u00e2\u20ac\u2122120\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 is coming back,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pinfield told MTV News. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been so influential in so many people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives. Musicians, music fans, actors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so many people have told me the show was pivotal and life-changing for them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [<a href=\"http:\/\/widget.uproxx.com\/b\/5\/http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1660085\/matt-pinfield-120-minutes.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoa, easy there, Pinfield. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a TV show about music, not the discovery of penicillin. Still, I look forward to a real person talking intelligently about emerging music that I might like, rather than MTV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interchangeable youth-bots lording over an audience of screaming teenagers. This is the first not-stupid thing that MTV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done in about ten years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/uproxx\/warmingglow\/~3\/1vTzQWXtgag\/whoa-mtv-bringing-back-120-minutes\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe this is happening.  what&#8217;s next  cats and dogs living together .. mass hysteria?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>  from <a href=\"http:\/\/shazbagl.com\/whoa-mtv-bringing-back-120-minutes-or-hell-is\">alex chan&#8217;s posterous<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend the \u00e2\u20ac\u212290s listening to Superchunk and Jeff Buckley, you probably remember \u00e2\u20ac\u0153120 Minutes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the two-hour program that focused on alternative music and last aired on MTV in 2000 (it moved to MTV2 before going off the air in 2003). And now MTV has announced that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bringing the show back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}