Justin Timberlake Answers ‘The Phone’

Fri, 09 May 2008 at 4:12 pm

Justin Timberlake announced at yesterday’s MTV Upfronts that he’s going to produce a new reality show for MTV called The Phone.

The Phone is based on a Dutch TV show, which pits contestants in a race against time and each other to accomplish a mission and win a cash prize.

Here’s a synopsis via Access Hollywood: Each episode will begin with two strategically placed cell phones ringing at opposite ends of a major metropolitan city. Once answered, a mysterious guide gives contestants five seconds to decide if they want to play the game.

If they accept, the competition begins, throwing the two contestants into an intense race, where they must communicate via cell phone to succeed.

The guide will also be communicating with the game players via cell phone, as a helicopter in the sky tracks their every move, exploit and error – with each failed task chipping away at the cash prize.

DO YOU THINK you’ll tune into “The Phone” this fall?

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# 31

Aline @ 05/10/2008 at 7:27 am

He is ugly, too think, he doesn’t sing, always making playback and stupid American people love him…It shows how American peopel need culture, stop seeing stupid Tv series and tv programms and stop eating to be less fat.

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Fleur @ 05/10/2008 at 8:49 am

And as many others here I’m from The Netherlands as well but ‘The Phone’… Never heard of it! Does anyone from Holland know when it was on and on which station?

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Andrea @ 05/10/2008 at 7:20 pm

what a hypocrite. this is the same guy who embarrassed the cast of the hills at the mtv music awards. any way to make a buck i suppose.

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me @ 05/10/2008 at 8:53 pm

Aline, you are an ignorant jerk if you say that. He has NEVER done playback . And he has proved that he can sing LIVE even while dancing to a hard coreography or playing instruments, so if you don’t know anything about him, stfu.

And this doesn’t seem to be a “reality” show. It’s more of a game show. Reality shows are crap like The Hills or South of Nowhere.

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# 35

leonie @ 05/11/2008 at 5:14 am

i like the phone! I watch it all the time, but it can be quite boring sometimes. hopefully jt can bring it to another level

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Angelique @ 05/11/2008 at 6:15 am

I’m from Holland and I know this show for quite some time now. People may of may not like the concept, but the producer behind the show is called Beau van Erven Dorens (yes, the ex-host RTL Boulevard). And just last week he won the Golden Rose for Best Reality-show at the Rose d’Or Festival in Switserland. These awards are, next to the Emmy’s, the most prestigieus tv-awards in the world.. So there you go…

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# 37

WTF??? @ 05/11/2008 at 1:34 pm

LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS!!

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niene @ 05/11/2008 at 3:38 pm

i’m watching the phone right now on the dutch television cause i live in holland and it’s actually pretty cool and seriously nervewrecking : )