All posts in: World of Jenks

08 Jul 2013

It’s About A Girl

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Filmmaker and MTV reality television series “World of Jenks” star released a trailer today for his new project with online personality Taryn Southern. Is this a fictional webseries? A reality series? We’ve never known Andrew Jenks to put out anything that was scripted, but there’s a first time for everything. Girls everywhere are very jealous that Taryn is macking on Jenks, I’m sure.

UPDATE: A closer look at the series and Andrew’s interview with Huffington Post

17 Feb 2013

Andrew Jenks, Will You Be My Best Friend

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Dear Andrew Jenks,

I want you to know that at 22, I am truly aspiring to be someone like you. Throughout periods of my life, I have dreamed of having the opportunity to get to know people the way that you do and since I’m unable to, I live vicariously through your MTV television series. Since day one, I’ve been a fan – not because MTV finally put out a series that was both of quality and sincerity, but because Andrew – himself – is such a normal guy who is just trying to understand the people that walk among us.

In addition to being a young filmmaker and having his own series, Andrew Jenks led the way for being an advocate for young voters earlier this election season. It was important to me to have a figure like him be the voice of our generation and relay important details back to us via different outlets like his webisodes or his Twitter so that the rest of could stay informed.

I am in awe of people like Andrew and I hope someday that I will be able to have an impact much like he did for me. I am so excited for his new series to start next month in which he spends his season following three individuals with truly remarkable stories. One person he follows is actually from the previous season and a show favorite! Thanks for doing what you do Andrew and please continue to enlighten us on the little details that we forget every day.

Check out the Ditlo profile on Andrew here.

20 Dec 2011

Tuesday Morning Tweet

Well, hey! This was fun to wake up to this morning! Yesterday evening, I tweeted out the election coverage post that I had written about Andrew earlier in the day and he retweeted and replied back to me. I had to do a double take at my phone this morning when I saw it. Not only am I a huge fan of his series on MTV, but I’ve been wanting to set up an interview with this guy forever! The one contact I had to him no longer represents him so now I’m back at square one and am in need of a way to get this interview to him. Help a sista out.

29 Nov 2010

Song of the Day

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Them Terribles – Dreamers

Where have you heard this song?

World of Jenks!

24 Nov 2010

Song of the Day

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Ellie Goulding – Lights

I really REALLY like this song. I downloaded Ellie’s album Lights [this track is not on there] a couple months ago and have been listening to it over and over again. I first heard this song on an episode of World of Jenks and since I didn’t have the song on the album, I’ve just been listening to it on Playlist.

Ellie will be releasing her new album Bright Lights this Friday which will feature new artwork, new tracks, and acoustic versions of her songs. Pre-order it here.

19 Nov 2010

Strange Days With Bob Saget

You are totally biting off Andrew Jenks’ World of Jenks. Please gtfo. You will always be Danny Tanner and you are not funny as a comedian. For that, Yow Yow! shows no support towards your new television series on A&E.

20 Sep 2010

Mad Respect

Reality shows that you should be watching: The Buried Life and World of Jenks, but more importantly maybe World of Jenks. I have so much appreciation towards these shows because this…THIS is what reality is. The definition of reality is not Jersey Shore or Real Housewives of Atlanta or Rock of Love. As entertaining as they may be, they are not real. I’m not saying that every reality television show needs to be like The Buried Life or World of Jenks. In fact, I think they are stronger because there are no other shows like them.

These guys are selfless in that they don’t make themselves the stars of their show. Their focus is on people and on life. They do all of the editing for the show themselves. Their work is 100% them and they wouldn’t choose to use their network, MTV, unless they absolutely needed to.

10 Sep 2010

My Fall TV Schedule

Monday: World of Jenks & The Buried Life

Tuesday: Glee

Wednesday: Criminal Minds & Hellcats [overlapping schedule shiiiii….]

Thursday: Vampire Diaries

Friday: – – – –

Saturday: JONAS LA

Sunday: Keeping Up w/ The Kardashians & The Spin Crowd

Oh…I must have forgotten I was still in college

04 Sep 2010

World of Jenks

By now, most of you [who have cable] have seen the previews and commercials for the new MTV television series World of Jenks. When I first caught a glimpse of the show early last month, I immediately contacted him to see if I could snag an interview. Andrew Jenks is a 24-year old filmmaker. At 19, he explored what it was like to live in a nursing home for three weeks and captured his experience for an HBO documentary entitled Room 335. On his new show World of Jenks, Andrew is walking in the shoes of various people and understanding what it is like to live the life of a rapper, a surfer, an NFL cheerleader, a gambler in Vegas, and someone who is homeless.

I sought out Andrew because I was interested in his project and wanted a chance to learn more about him and his show before the premiere. Sometimes my favorite part about this blog is the interviews I get to have with other people. Like Andrew, I am curious about the lives that other people lead, but this is as close as I will ever get. That may be the reason as to why I feel inspired by Andrew and compelled to tell you about his project. Unfortunately, I was not able to work out an interview with Andrew. I had been trying to hold off on this post just in case I had received his interview back before the premiere. I wanted to be able to give you both a preview and an interview before the premiere.

Earlier this morning, I watched the first episode of World of Jenks. It would be a little selfish if I kept it to myself and continued to wait for Andrew’s response. The first episode exceeded my expectations. Although I may not have gotten a chance to chat with Andrew now, I hope that someday I will have the opportunity to.

To view the first episode please click here.

On day one of filming, I always have an idea of what the story is for each character. I have an idea of what is at stake. But I always leave with a different perspective and thus a story that I never saw coming. – Andrew Jenks

The show will premiere Monday, September 13th at 10 p.m.  ET/PT