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Faking the Video (2004–2004) on MTV

The answer: Concluded July 5, 2004.
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Network / streamer
MTV
Premiered
May 24, 2004
Ended
July 5, 2004
Runtime
~30 min per episode
1season
7episodes

About Faking the Video

Faking the Video is a six-week, hidden-camera series in which celebs and actors fool six, unsuspecting production assistants on a (fake) shoot for a "We Are the World"-style music video.

In each episode, filmed in Los Angeles, the P.A.s – thinking they have a career-making opportunity – are faced with situations that go horribly wrong. In Monday's premiere, a rain-making machine malfunctions, flooding the soundstage and the P.A.s have to bail the water in buckets. In a later episode, a P.A. standing in front of a green-screen in a green spandex suit is made to prance around holding a cardboard cutout of a cloud. He thinks he is going to be removed from the special effect, but is not, since the entire set-up is phony.

When it's all over, the winner gets a $3,500 prize package and a job on Wayne Isham video. (All contestants received a $1,000 salary and cash prize and over $1,500 in electronics merchandise.)

Faking the Video episode schedule

7 aired

Aired · 7

DateEp.Title
July 5, 2004 S1·E7 One Big Disaster Day
June 28, 2004 S1·E6 Two PA's Left
June 21, 2004 S1·E5 Carnivale
June 14, 2004 S1·E4 Bling-Bling Music Video Set
June 7, 2004 S1·E3 Silent Diva
May 31, 2004 S1·E2 First Shoot
May 24, 2004 S1·E1 Meet the PA's