Co-Creator of
Reality TV Mary-Ellis Bunim Dies of Cancer at Age 57
(February 1, 2004) After a long battle with cancer, Mary-Ellis Bunim, who
with partner Jonathan Murray is credited with creating the modern reality
television genre in 1987, died last Thursday in Burbank, California. Merging
the documentary nature of news and the dramatic intrigue of soap operas, Bunim
and Murray hatched an innovative idea for a dramatic series featuring real
people rather than actors. That series became MTV's The Real World
and marked the beginning of the reality television genre. As the mother of
reality television, Bunim co-created Road Rules, The Love Cruise,
Making the Band, The Real World Road Rules Challenge, the reality
feature film The Real Cancun, the real-life daytime drama Starting
Over, and The Simple Life. Click here
to read more.
Trevor and the Hollywood Knights Celebrate A Victory at Santa Monica High
School
(February 1, 2004) Trevor fans, Hollywood Knights fans and the faculty, students
and other supporters of Santa Monica High School filled the school’s
gym to enjoy a great celebrity-filled basketball game to raise funds for the
school (see list of celebrity participants here).
Trevor made numerous assists and two baskets for the team to contribute to
the Knights' 87 to 68 victory over the Santa Monica High School faculty. But
everyone was cheering in the end as the game drew a near capacity crowd for
this charity basketball game that was held to raise funds for Santa Monica
High. Stay tuned for the whole story! Click here
to view Trevor’s video greeting to everyone at Inside O-Town from the
locker room after the game and click here
to see all the pictures from the game!
True Inspiration Launches Message Board!
(February 17, 2004) The founders of True
Inspiration, a website devoted to the incredibly talented Jacob Underwood,
are pleased to announce the grand opening of their True
Inspiration Message Board. Stop by our Local
Communities page and read more about it and be sure to stop by the message
board and post!
Two New Broadcast Network Outlets!
(March 1, 2004) Inside O-Town is happy to welcome two new additions to
the Broadcast Network - Worth
All The While and O-Town
Loves Their Fans! Thanks to Ashley and Rachel for supporting the boys
through thick and thin! On another note, BNO O-Town Unlimited has been renamed
O-Town Revolution.
Have You Heard? Listen Up!
(March 15, 2004) We’d like to thank Heike, the founder and webmaster
of IO Broadcast Network Affiliate Jadet-World.de
(formerly O-Town-World.de), for sharing this news with us. After purchasing
Natural’s latest album, It’s Only Natural, which was released
in Germany today, she discovered when reading the CD booklet, that Dan Miller
and Billy Chapin (O-Town’s lead guitarist) wrote one of the songs on
the album, “Somedays and Mondays.” Also, Backstreet fans will be
pleased to learn that Kevin Richardson and Howie Dorough wrote the song on
the album that is titled, "One Day Too Late." She also found this
web page at Bravo.de that has samples of all of the album’s songs
and this
web page that has scans of the CD booklet. According to Trans Continental
Records, the album is not currently scheduled for release in the US, but you
can order the album through this
page of amazon.com’s German site.
“These Are The Days” On “Planet Pop 5” Compilation
CD
(March 16, 2004) We’re glad that CherryAnne, who is the owner of
IO Broadcast Network Affiliate Respect
O-Town, informed us that she found that “These Are The Days”
is one of the tracks on the "Planet Pop 5" compilation CD that can
be purchased here
at The Future Shop by Canadian fans or as an import here
at amazon.com as an import by US fans.
O-Town News Found in Popstar! and M Magazine
(March 15, 2004) We thank Steph for mentioning
that Popstar! magazine published the news of O-Town’s break up
on page 11 of their March issue: “O-Town is back. Not with more music,
but with an official break-up letter, which they sent to the fab site InsideOTown.com.”
You can read the entire article here.
Thanks go to Jen for letting us know that Popstar! included
Ashley and Tiffany in their Eyewitness section of their April issue. There
is a nice photo and mention of the two as they were seen at Teen People’s
American Music Awards after-party last November. Finally, Jenn alerted us
to the fact that O-Town’s breakup made the pages of the April issue of
M Magazine. Excerpts from O-Town’s letter to their fans about
their break up that Ashley gave to the Inside O-Town Broadcast Network were
included.
