The Real World: Philadelphia
| The Real World: Philadelphia | |
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The cast of The Real World: Philadelphia
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| Created by |
Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Starring | Landon Lueck Willie Hernandez Sarah Burke M.J. Garrett Karamo Brown Melanie Silcott Shavonda Billingslea |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original network |
MTV Syndication |
| Original release | September 7, 2004 – March 8, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | The Real World: San Diego |
| Followed by | The Real World: Austin |
The Real World: Philadelphia is the fifteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the third season of The Real World to be filmed in the Mid-Atlantic States region of the United States, specifically in Pennsylvania.
The season featured seven people who lived in a three-story building, which production began filming from April 30 to August 20, 2004. The season premiered on September 7 of that year and consisted of 26 episodes. The season premiere was watched by 3.3 million viewers.
The Philadelphia season is the first with two openly gay men, Momo and Wilian Hernandez, in the cast. (The first season to have two gay cast members, regardless of sex, was the 2002 Chicago season, although the 1999 Hawaii season featured a bisexual woman and a gay man.) This was the first season to feature an openly gay black male.
Beginning with the show's fifth season, almost every season of The Real World has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates, continued participation in which has been mandatory to remain part of the cast since the Back to New York season. The Philadelphia cast worked for the Philadelphia Soul, an Arena Football League team which was formerly partly owned by Jon Bon Jovi. As part of their duties for the Soul, the cast planned and built a playground for underprivileged children as part of the Northern Home for Children program.
The cast lived in a building at 249-251 Arch Street at 3rd Street in Old City Philadelphia 39°57′08″N 75°08′43″W / 39.9522°N 75.1453°W. The 14,494-square-foot (1,346.5 m2), three-story building, which is adjacent to the Betsy Ross House, was built in 1902, and known as the Union Bank of Philadelphia Building until 1970, when it was sold to Seamen's Church Institute to house global seafarers. It was placed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in January 1977, and purchased in 2003 by Yaron Properties, Inc for $2.2 million USD. $3 million more went into renovating and furnishing the building for production of the series, which included 42 mounted cameras for filming. The interior was designed by Norm Dodge of Norm Dodge & Associates.
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