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. The cast was filmed living in a SoHo loft from
February 16 to May 18, 1992, The series premiered May 21 of that year.
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 twenty-first season,set in the borough of Brooklyn.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. The
cast was filmed living in a SoHo loft from February 16 to May 18,
1992, The series premiered May 21 of that year. 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
twenty-first season,set in the borough of Brooklyn.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). Some, however, have credited an earlier
series, the 1991 Dutch TV show Nummer 28, for these innovations.The
Real World was originally inspired by the popularity of youth-oriented
shows of the 1990s like Beverly Hills 90210. Bunim and Murray
initially considered developing a scripted series in a similar vein,
but quickly decided that the cost of paying writers, actors, costume
designers, and make-up artists was too high. Bunim and Murray decided
against this idea, and at the last minute, pulled the concept (and the
cast) before it became the first season of the show. Tracy Grandstaff,
one of the original seven picked for what has come to be known as
"Season 0",[citation needed] went on to minor fame as the voice of the
animated Beavis and Butt-head character Daria Morgendorffer, who
eventually got her own spinoff, Daria. Dutch TV producer Erik Latour
claims that the ideas for The Real World were directly derived from
his television show Nummer 28, which aired in 1991 on Dutch
television. Bunim/Murray decided upon the cheaper idea of casting a
bunch of "regular people" to live in an apartment and taping their
day-to-day lives, believing seven diverse people would have enough of
a basis upon which to interact without scripts. The production cast
seven cast members from 500 applicants, paying them $2,600 for their
time on the show. The Real World: New York Top Movies & Young Movies