MTV Hasn't Been the Same Without Beavis & Butt-Head and Now They're Making Their Triumphant Comeback!
25 August 2005 - 5:39AM
PR Newswire (US)
The Boys Present The Viewer's Choice Award at The 2005 MTV Video
Music Awards NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV: Music
Television announced today that the boys are back and looking to
score. After over seven years off the air and being sorely missed
by the MTV audience, Beavis & Butt-Head are set to present the
Viewer's Choice Award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards on August
28th. In addition, it was also announced that MTV and Paramount
Home Video Entertainment will be releasing "Beavis and Butt-Head:
The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1." The DVD box set is scheduled
for release on November 8th. Beavis & Butt-Head left on a
tremendous high in their career and are still wildly popular with
the MTV audience. "Beavis & Butt-Head" was one of MTV's highest
rated series ever. "Beavis & Butt-Head Do America," their
feature film released in December 1996, grossed over 70 million
dollars, their DVDs sold over 5 million units, and the video game
series sold over a million units. "We're excited to work with
Beavis and Butt-Head again," said Van Toffler, President, MTV
Networks Music/Films/Logo Group. "But we really didn't have a
choice. They were persistently calling me at work, at home, and on
my cell. They wouldn't leave me alone until I agreed to take their
call and help them." "Uh, so we called up Toffler and asked him to
put us back on MTV so we could score," said Butt-Head. "And he
invited us to the VMAs and said we could put out a DVD of our
stuff." "Uh huh-huh-huh. Dumbass," said Beavis. More details of the
DVD will become available as soon as Beavis & Butt- Head get
off their couch and figure out what they're doing. MTV Networks, a
division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE:VIANYSE:VIA.B), owns
and operates the following television programming services -- MTV:
MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, mtvU, VHI, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE,
COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, MTV INTERNATIONAL
and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 12 digital
services, all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks
also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication
deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen
worldwide. DATASOURCE: MTV CONTACT: Jennifer DeGuzman,
+1-212-258-7175, or Cell, +1-917-783-9731, or Marnie Black,
+1-212-846-7004, Cell, +1-917-434-9397, both of MTV Web site:
http://www.mtv.com/
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