Okay. I was just making sure. Somebody most likely signed on for her.

Is that the full cast or is there more that you have not heard of yet?

The full list is posted.

Does anybody know if they are sticking to 1 hour episodes? I believe it has helped a lot more.

They probably will stick with the one hour format since they did it with Hollywood too.

An MTV press release also said TRW: Brooklyn would also be broken into hour long episodes (even before filming has begun.) I have a feeling they found the formula worked better (with a full hour to engage the audience.)

My best guess is we see hour long episodes of the next challenge with the good boost in ratings (over I3) and audience retention they saw with G3.

Yeah it adds a certain freshness to it and also they have more time to work with storylines instead of trying to jam it into a half hour pr spread it over too many weeks. Plus I think they have done a better job at the editing with it too. Not to say that the other seasons weren't good(Thank Sydney for giving us a certain persian)

awesome.

MTV looked around at its competition (VH1, BRAVO, Oxygen, Lifetime, etc) and realized that everyone but E! had moved to the hour reality format some time ago.

One problem with being on top for so long is not realizing the advances in programming made by your competition. As you can tell from the early episodes of Hollywood, the editors were still thinking in half hour blocks, also, while Gauntlet 3 played as an hour show, it was planned an produced in Mexico with the expectation of being a 30 min show. Now that MTV has dictated 60 min challenge episodes, production must orient its thinking to an entirely new production dynamic, otherwise it's just two 30 min shows glued together.

Innovation and progress from, imagine that.