''True Life'' is an American
documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
television series that aired on
MTV
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from March 31, 1998 to June 21, 2017. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as
heroin addiction as in the first episode – "Fatal Dose". The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives. A four-episode revival series titled ''True Life/Now'' aired in 2019 and a crime investigation iteration called ''
True Life Crime'' premiered in 2020.
A TV special titled ''True Life Presents: First-Time First Responders'' premiered on June 9, 2020.
A four-part docu-series titled ''True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories'' premiered on August 5, 2020.
Topics covered
''True Life'' has covered over 140 topics from drug use, money issues, and sexual topics to simple social behavior like visiting the Jersey Shore. The show has aired 18 seasons and 328 episodes so far. There is an occasional intersection between this show and other shows. For example, the episode "I'm a Reality TV Star" featured people from ''
The Real World'' and ''
Survivor
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'', while the episodes "I'm a Muay Thai Fighter" and "I'm a Mixed Martial Artist" both featured
Kit Cope
Kristopher Lee "Kit" Cope (born March 17, 1977) is an American Kickboxing, Muay Thai kickboxer and Mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight (MMA), Featherweight, Lightweight (MMA), Lightweight, and Welterweight ( ...
, who has recently signed a deal with the
WFA and
Frankie Edgar, who was the UFC Lightweight Champion. In the episode "I'm Bisexual," Sydney goes on a date with A.D. from ''
From G's to Gents''. In 2011, Sydney was featured in season 6 of Oxygen's ''
Bad Girls Club''. Lazar, who was in the episode "I'm in A Love Triangle", was in a 2007 episode of ''
Parental Control''.
Awards and nominations
*Won 2009 Emmy Award for Best Special Class Series.
*Won 2000 Image Award for Outstanding News, Talk, or Information Special (For episode "I Am Driving While Black".)
*Won 2005 GLAAD ashleeMedia Award for Outstanding Documentary (For episode " I'm Gay and I'm Getting Married". Accepted by Aaron Pike and Stephen Schonberg)
*True Life: I'm on Crystal Meth Won 2007 Prism Award for TV Teen Series Episode or Special (awarded to Cheryl Horner Sirulnick.)
*Nominated 2000 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism (For the segment "Matthew's Murder".)
*Nominated 2003 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary (For episode "I'm Coming Out.")
*Nominated 2016 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism - Newsmagazine (For episode "I'm Genderqueer" featuring Jacob Tobia.)
References
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1990s American documentary television series
1998 American television series debuts
2000s American documentary television series
2010s American documentary television series
2017 American television series endings
American English-language television shows
MTV News
MTV reality television series
Muay Thai television series
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