The Real World: Key West is the seventeenth season of MTV's reality
television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse
strangers living together for several months in a different city each
season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships.
It is the second season of The Real World to be filmed in the South
Atlantic States region of the United States, specifically in Florida
after The Real World: Miami.The season featured seven people and was
shot in the Key Haven neighborhood of Key West, Florida from August to
December 2005. It premiered on February 28, 2006 and consisted of 25
episodes. The season premiere was viewed by 3.33 million people.The
season featured seven people and was shot in the Key Haven
neighborhood of Key West, Florida from August to December 2005. It
premiered on February 28, 2006 and consisted of 25 episodes. The
season premiere was viewed by 3.33 million people.In 2019, the season
was made available for streaming on Facebook Watch (alongside the
sixteenth and twenty-eighth seasons) ahead of The Real World:
Atlanta's premiere.The production faced a lawsuit by tourism mogul Ed
Swift, a neighbor to the Driftwood Drive house, who sought to stop
filming at the location, on the grounds that the production's
floodlights, commercial-sized air conditioners, and outdoor cameras
capable of rotating towards his house were a nuisance, and that local
zoning laws prohibit commercial use of Key Haven homes. After MTV
threatened to cancel production in response to the lawsuit, a judge
threw out the lawsuit and allowed Bunim-Murray Productions to continue
filming the season, with some minor production restrictions put in
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