The creator of Jersey Shore has announced her next reality TV project, and it's already being hailed as "another stroke of genius" and "even more depraved" than Shore. SallyAnn Salsano's new show, Mama Drama, will follow the exploits of 10 women living in a house together. The catch? The women are actually five pairs of mother-daughter duos, and the moms are described as the type who "are more interested in acting like their daughter's BFF than a parent." The show, which will premiere New Year's Day on Vh1, "is emotionally and visually stimulating," says Salsano. "You can't stop watching." For better or worse, is Mama Drama a guaranteed hit?
Yes. And that's good thing: I haven't been this excited for a new series since I saw "The Situation and the gang fist-pumping" in the Jersey Shore promos, says Brian Moylan at Gawker. Mama Drama sounds "genius." There's nothing more volatile than a mother-daughter relationship. "Remember the Project Runway episode where designers" were forced to create an outfit for another contestant's mom and things "got really, really intense?" Well, this "is a whole show of that." Sounds like appointment television.
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