New Edition Story Pt. 2
- wwetvsports21
- Jan 26, 2017
- 2 min read
BET’s miniseries “The New Edition Story” got off to a gangbusters start Tuesday night. The network simulcast the premiere on sibling network Centric, and between them both, they pulled in 4.4 million pairs of eyeballs — 2.6 million of which were in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic — for the two-hour installment.
BET attracted the lion’s share of the audience, with 4.2 million total viewers and 2.5 million in the demo. That overall 2.6 million figure in the demo translates to a 1.44 rating, outdoing most of the series on broadcast TV that night. On BET, it was the network’s highest-rated premiere in five years.
The miniseries charts the course of Ur-boy band New Edition from their humble Boston beginnings to global megastardom, detailing the controversy and personnel changes along the way, and ruminating on the ultimate cost of fame. The cast includes Bryshere Y. Gray, Elijah Kelley, Luke James, Keith Powers, Algee Smith, and Woody McClain as the adult members of New Edition. “The New Edition Story” is executive produced by Jesse Collins (“Real Husbands of Hollywood”) for JCE Films, a division of Jesse Collins Entertainment; directed by Chris Robinson (“ATL”) and co-produced by Brooke Payne, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, and Bobby Brown.
On ‘The New Edition Story: Part One,’ we watched The New Edition boys turn into men. But in Part Two, manhood seemed to bring a whole new set of problems and Bobby Brown was problem number one. Throughout the whole episode, Brown was frequently at odds with his manager and his fellow bandmates due to an inflated ego. There seemed like there might be a moment of calm after his girlfriend gave birth to a son but it turned out that fatherhood did not slow Bobby down and instead it was just the beginning of his downward spiral, as he started to use cocaine and have sex with other women.
Things really came to a head at a show where Bobby just wouldn’t give up the spotlight until his bandmates had to take it from him, sending Bobby into a rage. Busting out from backstage in a silky bathrobe, he took the microphone back and he his bandmates came to blows.
WIth the band on the line, The New Edition took a vote and decided Bobby was bad for business.
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