Wrestling Society X pulled by MTV

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Wrestling Society X Delayed For A Week

Mike Johnson is reporting that MTV has pulled Wrestling Society X, after only three first run episodes. On Tuesday, a program titled "Scarred" will air in Wrestling Society X's scheduled time slot timeslot.

Source: Gerweck

Well who honstly didnt see that coming after WSX's rating of 0.5 ths week.

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Pro Wrestling Insider is reporting that in the midst of major shakeups within the network's executive end, MTV haspulled the fourth episode of MTV Wrestling Society X from next week's scheduled airing at 10:30 PM. The actual issue appears to have been with MTV's standards and practices department, but sources claim that the network is also trying to change their strategy moving forward both with WSX and other first-run programming. "Scarred" will run next Tuesday in WSX's usual timeslot. Actually it's somewhat debateable if you can use the term "usual" since the first two episodes debuted on Fridays and the third was the first to debut "exclusively" on a Tuesday, but that's how it was written on PWI.

Further details - the pulled WSX episode was slated to feature the debut of IWA Puerto Rico star Ricky Banderas, during an angle where he would throw a fireball into WSX champion Vampiro's face. MTV initially approved the storyline and stunt when it was filmed during WSX's taping in Los Angeles. Once the network received and reviewed the episode the decision was made to not allow it to air due to concerns over viewers possibly recreating the stunt, showing the same fraidycat attitude to fire they've had ever since first censoring Beavis & Butthead. Since the fireball angle was one of the main storylines for the length of the episodes, the situation went back and forth within the network and has yet to be resolved, so the episode was pulled.

Wrestling Society X producer Kevin Klinerock told PWI that he had discussed MTV's issues with producing a product that would feature violent stunt. "The biggest issue that standard and practices, and everyone at MTV has - and it's understandable - the concern is, 'How easy is it for some kid, some viewer, to replicate what they are seeing?' They don't want us swinging light tubes. Understood. An exploding casket, however, is not seen in the same light on the same scale of sheer violence of swinging a light tube; a kid's not going to be able to get an exploding casket in their backyard."

MTV as a network is in a major state of flux at the moment with ratings for their original programming (including their top series, Two-A-Days, which lead into WSX this Tuesday) down across the board. In response, parent company Viacom has let go of over 250 employees in the last several days including several high ranking executives, with some given two week notices and other departments being completely shut down. Among those fired was Paul DeBenedittis, who held the position of Executive Vice President of "multiplatform programming, content strategy and scheduling at MTV". DeBendittis was responsible for MTV's programming decisions, including placing WSX up against WWE's ECW on Sci-Fi. Sources claim the network is re-evaluating the programming currently airing on the network. Its possible that moving forward, WSX may be moved to another timeslot to get it away from ECW.

When asked whether the series was in danger of being canceled after garnering just a 0.5 rating this week with its third episode, WSX sources noted MTV had already paid for the production of the 10 filmed episodes and that it wouldn't make sense for the network to not air what they had already invested in. The hope is that once the shakeups within the network settle down, it will lead to a positive change overall for the series. Wrestling Society X is currently scheduled to return on Tuesday 2/27 at 10:30 PM although that could change as things evolve from the standards and practices end of MTV. More on this story as it continues to develop.

Source: angrymarks.com

So it my not be cancelld just rescheduled.

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Hey everyone!

Quick update on the status of the program as I'm sure you all are very curious.

First and foremost, the show has not been cancelled. However Wrestling Society X will not be on next week in its normal timeslot. The show WILL resume to its normal schedule the week after.

Thank you for your support! Please be sure to let everyone know WSX will resume Feb 27 at 10:30pm on MTV!

-WSX

From a WSX Bullentin on myspace.
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thank god for that WSX is awesome but sadly it looks like this could be the only season they do of it