I can understand why the producers chose Newcastle to find its cast for their adaptation of Jersey Shore. Its northern, working-class and renowned for its nightlife, basically the home of a perfect reality star. However, now in Series Five, I cant help feel they made a HUGE mistake BASING the show in Newcastle. Yes it has good nightclubs but, firstly, the cast are forbidden to film in most of them and, two, thats ALL its got going for it. Lets be honest, its hardly a pretty coastal village. Oh, and another thing, its not even on a shore! Its got a manky, grey river running through it. Surely it should be Geordie Riverbank? or, better still, just The Toon! Regardless of those, pedantic, points Ive made, the main problem I have with the shows location is it is not a place where you would stay for a length of time, a boozy weekend with your mates at the most. Its not a summer, or any seasonal, hotspot and, given that most of the cast live in the city, there isnt that holiday buzz of going to Newcastle as the Jersey lot have about travelling down the Shore. Frankly, the show isnt doing a job at convincing us that Newcastle is really the UK equivalent to Guido heaven, Seaside Heights.
Hey, I'm Deneo, I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland, in the UK, and have recently graduated from university as a student of sociology and culture. Over the course of my uni degree, I have become interested in socio-cultural discussion of just about anything and enjoy trying to apply it to pop culture topics, such as tv, film and music.