Speidi’s back with a new series — the only catch is that it doesn’t exist.
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The most famous famewhores of all time, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, are launching their comeback. The reality TV supervillains, best known from their turns as Lauren Conrad's archrivals on The Hills, have remained pretty quiet after their short stint on Big Brother in the U.K. earlier this year. But now, they're trying to relaunch their careers with another foray into the reality genre, this time with a self-produced web series called SpeidiShow.
Each episode has the couple trying out a different reality show format, i.e. living in Europe on $0 a day and helping out with a wedding.
It's a rebranding strategy perfect for a full-scale return to popularity. The only problem is that it's not real and they've never shot a single scene.
Although the show's website posts previews and recaps for each episode, there's no actual production of a web series. It's part of something called a netprov (network improve narrative), which is equal parts elaborate internet hoax, improvisational comedy, and performance art. Writers Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig are the masterminds behind the project.
Marino confirmed to BuzzFeed in a phone interview that SpeidiShow is indeed a part of netprov and that there is no actual show being produced here. As their site says, "SpeidiShow is Twitter buzz about an imaginary TV Show."
"Netprov basically extends what 'reality stars' do all the time — only it allows the fans to help tell the story," Pratt told BuzzFeed via email.
Marino said the goal with SpeidiShow is to involve fans in on the shaping of the series. Simply put, what people tweet will determine what happens on the show.
But it doesn't seem that many people have caught on to the experiment yet. The fact that there's no show to cover didn't stop MTV's Remote Control blog from posting a review of the series, including details of what happened in its nonexistent third episode. (MTV did not return BuzzFeed's request for comment.) Pratt has posted several retweets from fans saying that they love the new show, including a message from his sister and former Hills co-star Stephanie.
