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‘The Challenge’ Bosses Tease Iconic Season 40, Share Hopes for ‘Real World: Homecoming’ and ‘Road Rules’ Return and Respond to Cast Treatment Remarks
Julie Pizzi and Jon Murray open up to Variety about 'The Challenge' Season 40, the future 'Real World: Homecoming' and more.
Julie Pizzi, who has worked on “The Challenge” since 2000 and now serves as the president of BMP and 51 Minds Entertainment, recalls looking around on set of Season 40 in Vietnam and noticing, “There was such a sense of something bigger, which doesn’t always happen on a show. Below, Murray and Pizzi up about to Variety how the game — and casting for it — has changed, the state of competition reality TV today, other Bunim-Murray Productions series viewers are waiting for, and much more. Pizzi: A lot of these participants reach out to us because they may have been on “Love Island,” but they’re actually very competitive individuals who want to compete on “The Challenge.” Sometimes you don’t see that part of them on one of their other shows, but they come to us.
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