Jackass Is Headed Back To TV After The Success Of Jackass Forever
Jackass is getting a reboot on Paramount+ after the massive success of Jackass Forever, which topped the box office when it debuted earlier this year. The fourth installment of the franchise managed to gross $80 million worldwide against a budget of only $10 million, and now Paramount wants to bring the ridiculous antics to the small screen.
“Based on the success of Jackass Forever, we’re working with the creators to continue the partnership with a new series, bringing even more ridiculous antics straight to Paramount+,” Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish said Tuesday.
The show originally aired on MTV in 2000 and followed a cast of performers such as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and Jason "Wee Man" Acuña as they embarked on indecent and often dangerous behavior.
When Jackass started as an MTV series, the president of MTV had said: “We just knew there were a bunch of knuckleheads out there who had a very high tolerance for stupidity and pain.”
The show first aired on October 1, 2000, and was an immediate success. The second episode gave MTV its highest Sunday ratings with almost 2.5 million viewers.
The show ended after three seasons, following Knoxville’s growing discontent with MTV. Not only did the network start giving notes dictating what sort of antics the show could and could not do, but he said the pay for the cast was “meager.”
Following the show's original run, a full-length movie, Jackass: The Movie, hit theaters in 2002. The success of the movie turned Jackass into a full-fledged media franchise of its own, spawning numerous spinoffs as well as three sequels to the film.
Paramount hasn't released many details about the upcoming series, but it’s safe to assume Knoxville, Steve-O, and Wee Man will be back.
Don’t expect to see Bam Margera, though. He got dropped from Jackass Forever in August 2020 because he broke his contract. Bam had to submit to routine drug tests, stay sober, blow into a breathalyzer, see a psychologist, and take his medication.
It’s unclear which of those rules he broke, but he promptly sued Knocksville and Paramount. He eventually dropped his suit against his old pal Johnny, but his suit against paramount was only recently settled.
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