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New Beavis And Butt-Head to have fewer pop videos
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 2 August 2011
When the Beavis and Butt-head TV show is revived this autumn, the cartoon duo will be providing their unique critiques to fewer music videos and more MTV shows. Of course, since they last appeared on the music TV network, the music-video-to-general-youth-programming ratio at MTV has changed somewhat, which is possibly why bosses their want B&B passing judgement on shows like ‘Jersey Shore’ and ‘Teen Mom’, and some movie clips, as well as pop promos. Though show producer Mike Judge says licensing issues and costs associated with music videos are one of the reasons why less will appear on the new show. Billboard quote Judge as saying, simply “It’s licensing”.
