Blue Mountain State
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Blue Mountain State is an American comedy series
that premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010. The series producers include Chris Romano
and Eric Falconer and is produced by Lionsgate Television
. The series is about a fictional university in Pennsylvania
, Blue Mountain State, and its football
team, "The Goats." It portrays certain aspects of university life, including football, sex
, binge drinking
, drug
s, wild partying, and hazing
. The show has run for three seasons.
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| style="text-align:center;"| October 16, 2010
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| style="text-align:center;"| January 19, 2011
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, U.S.A.
. The show mainly revolves around the football field and locker room, as well as the Goat House, a football party house that is occupied by Thad, Alex, and Sammy. Although no direct relation to any real life university is mentioned, many similarities have led viewers to perceive Blue Mountain State to be a caricature of Florida State University
. Many believe this due to the fact that Blue Mountain State has won a National Championship the same year as Florida State University, has a head coach with the second most wins of all time in college football(Bobby Bowden
), and for the well known nature of the school being known as a party school.
gave the series 38 out of 100, from the four reviews it collected. Brian Lowry of Variety
found that "Blue Mountain embraces that (crude comedy) aspect of Spike's mandate over all else -- putting the bodily function/semi-nudity cart before the sitcom horse." Lowry also stated that, "(Spike) has simply made this too-blue "Mountain" into a comedic molehill." Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald
gave the series a favourable review saying, "Blue is also frequently funny Conor Hatton in a raunchy American Pie way. It's a college comedy in which the guys want to get wasted and laid, in whatever order." Joe Walljasper of the Columbia Daily Tribune
describes the series as appealing to those who viewed the film Porky's
and "felt that the jokes were a little too high-brow."
In its first season, the show averaged 949,000 viewers in its first six episodes while improving on the time slot by 165% among men 18-24. In its second season, its premiere drew a 1.34 rating in Men 18-34, up 34% compared to the first season average and was ranked #2 in its timeslot. Over the season it showed significant ratings growth compared to season 1, delivering a +33% increase in Men 18-34, +50% in Men 18-24, and +14% in Men 18-49. Season 3 of Blue Mountain State started airing on September 21st 2011 on Spike.
and MTV New Zealand
respectively, beginning April 22, 2010. The series began airing in the United Kingdom April 18, 2010 on MTV.. MTV Germany and Viva (TV station) also broadcast the series with great success in Germany and The Netherlands. MTV Brasil
began airing the series August 3, 2010. The show has also began airing on The Score
in Canada beginning October 2011.
Season 3 began airing September 21, 2011 on Spike at 11pm.
Television comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them...
that premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010. The series producers include Chris Romano
Chris Romano
Chris "Romanski" Romano is an actor, writer, producer, and director; most commonly known for his acting role in Spike TV's Blue Mountain State. He plays the role of Sammy Cacciatore: The team mascot and Alex's roommate who is constantly searching for girls and excuses to get drunk, with his...
and Eric Falconer and is produced by Lionsgate Television
Lionsgate Television
Lionsgate Television is the television division of Lions Gate Entertainment, an entertainment company. It is located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Productions :The following is a partial list of the division's productions:...
. The series is about a fictional university in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, Blue Mountain State, and its football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team, "The Goats." It portrays certain aspects of university life, including football, sex
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
, binge drinking
Binge drinking
Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is the modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. It is a kind of purposeful drinking style that is popular in several countries worldwide,...
, drug
Drug
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.In pharmacology, a...
s, wild partying, and hazing
Hazing
Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
. The show has run for three seasons.
Cast
| Name | |Position | 1 | |3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Cast | |||||
| Alex Moran | Darin Brooks Darin Brooks Darin Lee Brooks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Max Brady on Days of our Lives, and as Alex Moran on Blue Mountain State.-Personal life:... |
Quarterback Quarterback Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line... |
Second String | Starter; Capt. (1-3) | |
| Kevin "Thad" Castle | Alan Ritchson Alan Ritchson Alan Ritchson is an American actor, singer, and fashion model. He is best known for his modeling career as well as his portrayals of the superhero Aquaman on The CW's Smallville and Thad Castle on Spike TV's Blue Mountain State.... |
Linebacker Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen... |
Starter; Capt. | Starter; Capt. (4-12) | |
| Craig Shilo | Sam Jones III Sam Jones III Samuel L. Jones III is an American actor, best known for playing Pete Ross on the first three seasons of the television series Smallville.-Career:... |
Running Back Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running... |
Starter | ||
| Radon Randell | Page Kennedy Page Kennedy Page Kennedy is an American television and film actor who most recently starred in the second season of the sports comedy series Blue Mountain State on Spike.... |
Quarterback Quarterback Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line... |
Starter | ||
| Sammy Cacciatore | Chris Romano Chris Romano Chris "Romanski" Romano is an actor, writer, producer, and director; most commonly known for his acting role in Spike TV's Blue Mountain State. He plays the role of Sammy Cacciatore: The team mascot and Alex's roommate who is constantly searching for girls and excuses to get drunk, with his... |
Team Mascot Mascot The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name... |
Billy, The Mountain Goat | ||
| Mary Jo Cacciatore | Frankie Shaw | Cheerleader | Last Cheer | ||
| Denise Roy | Gabrielle Dennis Gabrielle Dennis Gabrielle Dennis is an American television and film actress and television host. Since 2008, she has had a recurring role on BET series The Game. -Career:... |
Craig Shilo's girlfriend Girlfriend Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-romantic friend that is closer than other friends.... |
Student | ||
| Recurring Cast | |||||
| Marty Daniels | Ed Marinaro Ed Marinaro Ed Marinaro is an American former football player turned actor.-Football career:Marinaro played high school football in New Milford, New Jersey, for the New Milford High School Knights.... |
Head Coach | Head Coach | ||
| Larry Summers | Omari Newton | Defensive Back Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of... |
Starter | ||
| Jon Jon Hendricks | Kwasi Songui | Assistant Coach | Assistant Coach | ||
| Donald "Donnie" Schrab | Rob Ramsay | Center | Starter | ||
| Harmon Tedesco | James Cade | Placekicker Placekicker Placekicker, or simply kicker , is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals, extra points... |
Starting Kicker | ||
| Debra Simon | Denise Richards Denise Richards Denise Lee Richards is an American actress and former fashion model of Croatian and Welsh descent. She has appeared in films including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough... |
Daniels' Ex-wife | Team supporter | ||
| Marcus Gilday | Anthony Lemke Anthony Lemke Anthony Lemke is a Canadian actor. Lemke is best known in the United States as "Capt. Grisham" from the short-lived television series Queen of Swords and in Quebec as "David Rothstein" from the hit, mulitple award-winning series Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.-Biography:Anthony Lemke was... |
Offensive Coordinator Offensive coordinator An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of a gridiron football team who is in charge of the offense. Generally, along with his defensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach... |
Offensive Coordinator | ||
| Benjamin "El Cappo" Winters | Timothy Hutton Timothy Hutton Timothy Tarquin Hutton is an American actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People . He currently stars as Nathan "Nate" Ford on the TNT series Leverage.-Early life:Timothy... |
Full Back | Starter | ||
| Lucas "Stinkweed" Kutik | Matt Ross Matt Ross Matthew Brandon "Matt" Ross is an American actor best known for his role as Alby Grant in the HBO series, Big Love.-Filmography:*Urusei Yatsura 2 *Desperation Rising *PCU... |
Tight End Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be... |
Starter | ||
Main
- Alex Moran (Darin BrooksDarin BrooksDarin Lee Brooks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Max Brady on Days of our Lives, and as Alex Moran on Blue Mountain State.-Personal life:...
): A Junior starting quarterback, acting Captain, from CheyenneCheyenne, WyomingCheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...
, WyomingWyomingWyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
. He was the first 10,000 yard passer in Wyoming high school history. Unlike the rest of the characters, Alex does not see college football as a stepping stone for the NFL and is content to spend his days as a back-up player and a life as an "Average Joe" once he graduates college. Instead, he is dedicated to having as much fun as humanly possible while in college, which includes getting drunk and having sex. In the second season finale he begins dating Mary Jo, this ends once she becomes a lesbian. He lives at the Goat House with Thad and Sammy. As of Season 3, Alex holds the school passing touchdown record, a record previously held by John ElwayJohn ElwayJohn Albert Elway, Jr. is a former American football quarterback and currently is the executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League . He played college football at Stanford and his entire professional career with the Denver Broncos...
. His junior year he became starting quarterback. He wanted to be red shirted at first, then he saw the perks of being Blue Mountain State's starting quarterback so he decided to keep his role.
- Sammy Cacciatore (Chris RomanoChris RomanoChris "Romanski" Romano is an actor, writer, producer, and director; most commonly known for his acting role in Spike TV's Blue Mountain State. He plays the role of Sammy Cacciatore: The team mascot and Alex's roommate who is constantly searching for girls and excuses to get drunk, with his...
): The team mascot (Mounty, The Mountain Goat Mascot) from Cheyenne, Wyoming and Alex's roommate, childhood friend and Mary Jo's half brother. He's constantly searching for girls and excuses to get drunk, with his drinking often leading him into misadventure. He lives in a closet at the Goat House with Thad and Alex.
- Kevin "Thad" Castle (Alan RitchsonAlan RitchsonAlan Ritchson is an American actor, singer, and fashion model. He is best known for his modeling career as well as his portrayals of the superhero Aquaman on The CW's Smallville and Thad Castle on Spike TV's Blue Mountain State....
): A Senior linebackerLinebackerA linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...
/team captain from ConnecticutConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
. Despite his status as a two time consensus All-American and team record holder for most tackles in a game (a game which he was subsequently ejected from for calling referees "butt faces "), Thad is largely hated by his teammates for his bullying and high strung antics when things do not go his way. However, he still has great respect for his team and understands what it takes to be a leader in desperate situations. His father died in the military while stationed in Bosnia, where he had an affair resulting in Thad's attractive half-sister, Alma, of whom he is overly protective. He is also heavily prone to engage in excessive homoerotic behavior, especially in the hazing rituals of freshman players. His dedication to the team and willingness to sacrifice anything to ensure the team wins prompted coach Marty Daniels to name him Captain at the beginning of his sophomore year. This is the only time Daniels ever named someone so young captain. Thad lives at the Goat House with Alex and Sammy. His nickname "Thad" came from a childhood lisp that he came to embrace after some kids at school made fun of him for the way he said "sad."
- Radon Randell (Page KennedyPage KennedyPage Kennedy is an American television and film actor who most recently starred in the second season of the sports comedy series Blue Mountain State on Spike....
) (Starring Season 2) : Radon was the new freshman starting quarterback from Detroit, MichiganDetroit, MichiganDetroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
whose talent is matched only by his outrageous behavior and huge ego. He apparently served time in prison, and once stated he played football at Rikers. Radon also has a hyperbaric chamber in his dorm room, which he uses for his own entertainment. It is implied Thad injured his arm and caused him to withdraw from the team prior to the events of season 3.
- Craig Shilo (Sam Jones IIISam Jones IIISamuel L. Jones III is an American actor, best known for playing Pete Ross on the first three seasons of the television series Smallville.-Career:...
) (Starring Season 1) : A running back from Columbus, OhioColumbus, OhioColumbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
. National High School Player of the Year, Craig Shilo was the team's star freshman player. Unlike his teammates, Craig is rather straight-laced and committed to his ultra-manipulative girlfriend Denise, with whom he breaks up when he finds out she cheated on him with other men, including a man from her marketing class whom she tells Craig is an NFL scout. It is revealed in the Season 2 premiere that Shilo has transferred to GeorgiaUniversity of GeorgiaThe University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
(his character being written out due to Jones' major drug-related arrest).
- Denise Roy (Gabrielle DennisGabrielle DennisGabrielle Dennis is an American television and film actress and television host. Since 2008, she has had a recurring role on BET series The Game. -Career:...
) (Starring Season 1) : Denise is Craig Shilo's high school girlfriend. A former homecoming queen and star business student at Blue Mountain State, Denise is a cold and calculating figure who withholds sex from Craig to make him play better, all the while sleeping around behind his back (having three-ways with two other women and sleeping with a guy from her marketing class). She was often at odds with Alex Moran, who sees through her facade.
- Mary Jo Cacciatore (Frankie Shaw) (Starring Season 2, Recurring Season 3) : Mary Jo is Sammy's younger sister. She is slightly ditzy and interested in Alex, whom she has known since childhood. She is a cheerleader, though the other girls do not like her due to her laziness and showing up to practice drunk. In the second season she has sex with Alex Moran in the drunk tank's elevator. In Season 3, she becomes a lesbian and its is implied that she had slept with Debra.
Recurring
- Coach Marty Daniels (Ed MarinaroEd MarinaroEd Marinaro is an American former football player turned actor.-Football career:Marinaro played high school football in New Milford, New Jersey, for the New Milford High School Knights....
): Six-time national champion football coach from New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, and pillar of the BMS community. He was formerly a Running Back on the Vikings and Cowboys. He is dating his ex-wife Debra.
- Larry Summers (Omari Newton): A senior defensive backDefensive backIn American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...
who is friends with Thad Castle. It has been noted that Larry helped Thad out of a really bad situation, to which Thad reveals that he was sent a letter as a freshman to date someones daughter and he was in really far until Larry came and helped him out.
- Donald "Donnie" Schrab (Rob Ramsay): An overly large offensive lineman.
- Coach Jon Jon Hendricks (Kwasi Songui): The assistant coach of the football team.
- Harmon Tedesco (James Cade): The drug-abusing kickerPlacekickerPlacekicker, or simply kicker , is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals, extra points...
for the football team.
- Debra Simon (Denise RichardsDenise RichardsDenise Lee Richards is an American actress and former fashion model of Croatian and Welsh descent. She has appeared in films including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough...
): Coach Daniels' volatile and sex-crazed ex-wife. Debra Simon and Coach Marty Daniels are dating.
- Coach Marcus Gilday (Anthony LemkeAnthony LemkeAnthony Lemke is a Canadian actor. Lemke is best known in the United States as "Capt. Grisham" from the short-lived television series Queen of Swords and in Quebec as "David Rothstein" from the hit, mulitple award-winning series Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.-Biography:Anthony Lemke was...
): The offensive coordinator of the football team who previously coached at Stanford. Often trying to get Coach Daniels fired so he can become the head coach. His wife was once voted "Miss Tits Nebraska."
Seasons
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A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
release date
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In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...
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A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...
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Setting
Blue Mountain State takes place in an unnamed town in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, U.S.A.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The show mainly revolves around the football field and locker room, as well as the Goat House, a football party house that is occupied by Thad, Alex, and Sammy. Although no direct relation to any real life university is mentioned, many similarities have led viewers to perceive Blue Mountain State to be a caricature of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
. Many believe this due to the fact that Blue Mountain State has won a National Championship the same year as Florida State University, has a head coach with the second most wins of all time in college football(Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler "Bobby" Bowden is a retired college football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons...
), and for the well known nature of the school being known as a party school.
Reception
MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
gave the series 38 out of 100, from the four reviews it collected. Brian Lowry of Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
found that "Blue Mountain embraces that (crude comedy) aspect of Spike's mandate over all else -- putting the bodily function/semi-nudity cart before the sitcom horse." Lowry also stated that, "(Spike) has simply made this too-blue "Mountain" into a comedic molehill." Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
gave the series a favourable review saying, "Blue is also frequently funny Conor Hatton in a raunchy American Pie way. It's a college comedy in which the guys want to get wasted and laid, in whatever order." Joe Walljasper of the Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Daily Tribune
The Columbia Daily Tribune, commonly referred to as the "Columbia Tribune" or the "Tribune," is one of two daily newspapers in Columbia, Missouri. It is also the only daily newspaper in Columbia, Missouri that has circulation verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and has been a member of...
describes the series as appealing to those who viewed the film Porky's
Porky's
Porky's is a 1982 comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge! and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...
and "felt that the jokes were a little too high-brow."
In its first season, the show averaged 949,000 viewers in its first six episodes while improving on the time slot by 165% among men 18-24. In its second season, its premiere drew a 1.34 rating in Men 18-34, up 34% compared to the first season average and was ranked #2 in its timeslot. Over the season it showed significant ratings growth compared to season 1, delivering a +33% increase in Men 18-34, +50% in Men 18-24, and +14% in Men 18-49. Season 3 of Blue Mountain State started airing on September 21st 2011 on Spike.
Filming locations
- Olympic StadiumOlympic Stadium (Montreal)The Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada built as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics...
, MontrealMontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.... - John Abbott CollegeJohn Abbott CollegeJohn Abbott College is an English-language general and professional educational college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The enabling legislation is the General and Vocational Colleges Act -History:The college was accredited in...
, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QuebecSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QuebecSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is a town located at the western tip of the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is the second oldest community in Montreal's West Island, having been founded as a parish in 1703...
(Practice field) - McGill UniversityMcGill UniversityMohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
(MacDonald Campus), Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec (Dorm, Class Room) - Ste-Anne Street, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
- Masonic Temple, Montreal, Quebec
- Du Diable A Quatre Bar, Montreal (Pointe-Saint-Charles), Quebec
- Cunningham's Pub, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
- Lower Canada CollegeLower Canada CollegeLower Canada College of Montreal is an elementary and secondary level private school.The college was founded by the Church of St John the Evangelist in 1861 as St. John's School and changed its name to Lower Canada College in 1909, replacing an older school by that name that was founded in...
(Chamandy Ice Rink), Montreal, Quebec (Ice Rink)
Broadcast
The series premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010 in the United States. In Australia and New Zealand the series airs on MTV AustraliaMTV Australia
MTV Australia is 24 hour general entertainment channel specialising in music and youth culture programming which serves Australia and New Zealand. It is operated by Viacom International Media Networks Australia owned by Viacom and primarily features imported shows as well as locally produced...
and MTV New Zealand
MTV New Zealand
MTV New Zealand, was a 24-hour general television entertainment channel operated by MTV Networks International. The channel launched on 18 August 2006...
respectively, beginning April 22, 2010. The series began airing in the United Kingdom April 18, 2010 on MTV.. MTV Germany and Viva (TV station) also broadcast the series with great success in Germany and The Netherlands. MTV Brasil
MTV Brasil
MTV Brasil is the Brazilian version of MTV, owned by Abril Mídia, the nation's largest magazine publisher, under license from Viacom - owned MTV Networks Latin AmericaMTV Brasil is one of two versions of MTV available in free-to-air terrestrial television...
began airing the series August 3, 2010. The show has also began airing on The Score
The Score
The Score may refer to:* The Score Magazine, a Chennai magazine* The Score Television Network, a Canadian sports channel* The Score , a 1996 album by Fugees* The Score – An Epic Journey, a 2005 album by the symphonic metal band Epica...
in Canada beginning October 2011.
Season 3 began airing September 21, 2011 on Spike at 11pm.