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LINDSAY LOHAN'S BEACH CLUB
January 8, 2019  | By David Bianculli

MTV, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. In 1954, Walt Disney presented a new TV series on ABC called Disneyland – which began, basically, as a full-length advertisement for his new theme park. The theme park was so new that it wasn’t open yet, and the TV partnership with ABC was the way Disney financed it. Then, in 1992, MTV premiered The Real World, a reality TV series from Bunin/Murray Productions in which “everyday” people were selected by the producers to cohabit temporarily in a fabulously appointed home or apartment in some exotic or attractive locale. Tonight, MTV adds to that history by partnering with former Disney actress Lindsay Lohan, star of the 1998 movie remake of The Parent Trap, on a new reality series co-produced by the team behind The Real World. It’s called Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club – and while the title and network might suggest the show is a spring-break party venue for more of Lohan’s infamous misadventures, it’s actually a show meant to focus on, and of course publicize, her newest European beachfront nightclub. She is the owner of such beachfront clubs in Rome, Athens, and now in Mykonos, which this new MTV series promotes no less blatantly than Walt Disney pumped his movies and theme park on Disneyland. TV history marches on – and after a while, it’s all Greek to me.

 
 
 
 
 
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