The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)

You want your MTV? It’s back — on VH1

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NEW YORK >> MTV is rebranding VH1 Classic as MTV Classic and says the channel plans to serve up heaps of nostalgia for fans of “Beavis and Butt-head,” “Daria,” “Total Request Live,” and other MTV staples.

MTV says the channel will have “a special focus on the 1990s and early 2000s.” In addition to full-season marathons of “The Real World,” “Road Rules” and “Laguna Beach,” MTV says the channel will feature prime-time programmin­g blocks that include episodes of “Cribs,” “Jackass,” “Punk’d” and others. “MTV Unplugged” episodes that MTV says haven’t been aired in years also will be rerun.

MTV Classic will debut Aug. 1 — 35 years to the day of MTV’s debut. It’s first show will be “MTV Hour One,” a rebroadcas­t of MTV’s first hour of programmin­g from 1981.

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