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QOTW: What do you want Season 2 of NYC Prep to Look Like?

Angela — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:01:29 +0000

Photo Credit: Bravo TV

The season is ending and we want to know, what do you hope to see in Season Two? Same old cast, new faces mixed with old, all new faces? And what do you want them to show more of: the relationships, the friendships, the partying?

Episode #1: An Introduction To The World of Privilege

Angela — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:52:57 +0000

This is our first episode of Preppies To Yuppies presented by Talking Gossip After Dark. We talked about the preview special and extra information that’s been out there about the show. Next week, we’ll be back on Wednesday with a crossover episode from our other podcast to talk about the season premiere. Thanks for listening!

Episode #1: An Introduction To The World of Privilege

Opening:
- Visit our site at: nycprep.talking-gossip.com, call our voicemail at: 206-650-5159 or follow us on twitter: twitter.com/talkingnycprep
- It’s a preview episode about the preview stuff
- Remember NYC Prep premieres on Tuesday, June 23rd at 9 pm CST but it’s regular timeslot is 9/8c.

Explanation of our name:
How did we come up with the name? Listen to find out.

Meet The Cast:
We discuss the preview special and talk more about the cast. Everyone has something different for them and we pick their correlating Gossip Girl characters.

Expectations about NYC Prep:
We discuss our expectations about the show.

News on NYC Prep:
- Gawker article:
- Where do the NYC Prep teens go to school?

Closing:
- We will be back next week with a brand new episode on Wednesday!
- Keep up to date on all NYC Prep news and happenings at our website at nycprep.talking-gossip.com, leave us a voicemail at 206-350-5159 or follow us on twitter username TalkingNYCPrep, discuss the show in our forums
- And if you love NYC Prep you’ve got to love Gossip Girl so listen to our podcast and read our blog at talking-gossip.com
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NYC Prep Teens & Their Schools

Angela — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:54:58 +0000

There seem to be a lot of searches coming into the site looking for the schools the NYC Prep teens go to. Well I don’t live in NYC and I don’t know them personally, but I did find a list of the schools they go to. This may not be a correct list, but this is what we have.

Camille Hughes, 17, a junior at Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper East Side

Peter “PC” Peterson, 18, a senior at The Dwight School on the Upper West Side

Jessie Leavitt, 17, a senior at The Dwight School on the Upper West Side

Kelli Tomashoff, 17, a junior at Birch Wathen Lenox on the Upper East Side

Sebastian Oppenheim, 16, a sophomore at the Ross School in East Hampton

Taylor DiGiovanni, 15, a sophomore at Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City

The schools did not want to be mentioned on the show, therefore we will hear no mention of the schools or see them at any school events out of respect of the educational institutions.

Does it bother you that school will not be a part of NYC Prep?

Source: NYC Private Schools Blog

Teenage Mini Drama Makes the News

Angela — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:26:01 +0000

I had some conversations with friends who are all excited to watch the show because it reminds them of Laguna Beach! This seems to be a pro and con of the show, but for me it’s a big plus. I loved Laguna Beach and never missed an episode so I think I’m going to feel the same way about NYC Prep. Laugna Beach was rich kids living it up in California and NYC Prep is rich kids living it up in Manhattan.

The show previewed last week to the press and they have been speaking up about the show. They are all giving us the same basic information about the people, but now people are starting to comment about the actual show. Case in point: New York Times recently released a blog post called “Born Rich: A Preview of ‘NYC Prep’”. This is by far the best anything written on the show so far, but the points they use to down the show are the reasons why I want to watch.

In a nutshell, these kids lead reckless, privileged, precocious lives, whipping small hiccups into stiff peaks and saying rash and ill-advised things like “I have my own credit card. I don’t know how much I use it” and “we’re the elite of the elite.” It’s hard not to laugh at their myopia, ridicule their inconsequential chamber dramas and scoff at their teenage histrionics. And that’s exactly what the audience did, over and over again through the hourlong show. The cast slumped further down in their seats.

People like these Laguna Beach/The Hills/The City type shows because they show a life that as normal people we don’t live and we are a little intrigued. Yes, it’s mostly contrived drama, but it showing us something we don’t have in normal life. Or if we do, we’re watching other people live through it too. Isn’t that the whole reason why we watch television in the first place?

But watching these teens think they are “adults” is something I’m really ready to see. I think we’ve all been in that mind set where we thought we knew everything but were completely wrong. Being a teen, I know I thought I was invincible with my credit card that had no limit. But I never worried about paying that bill or any bills as a matter of fact. But it’s interesting to see them put on their adult faces in the Bravo preview special with the dinner parties and PC being upset because Taylor was talking about nothing during a fashion show.

But is that a reason for the adults in the room to laugh at them? Maybe, probably, and yes. This teenagers will learn soon in life they don’t have everything figured out and where money can probably get you a lot of places in this world, it won’t get you everywhere. I bet those kids did feel a little uncomfortable sitting in the press preview, but they are teens.

The fun part of being a teenager was having these mini-dramas that we thought were the end of world until we had to face real problems later in life. I understand these types of shows are not for everyone, but we must take them at what they are: entertainment and the expense of other people’s lives. But they chose to get filmed by the cameras, so we should at least watch what happens!

Source: New York Times Blog: The Moment