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MTV is bringing back one of its most popular reality shows, but this time there's a family feel. "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" reunites most of the stars of "Jersey Shore," which became a pop culture phenomenon when it ran from 2009 to 2012. The revival features past cast members Deena Nicole Cortese, Paul "Pauly D" Delvecchio," Jenni "JWOWW" Farley, Vinny Guadagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino.

Tentatively titled James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, the six-episode series will delve into sci-fi's origins as a small genre with a cult following to the blockbuster pop-culture phenonmenon it is today.In each hourlong episode, the Avatar director will introduce one of the "big questions" that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages, and reach back into sci-fi's past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born, and where the genre - and our species - might be going in the future. Cameron and his contemporaries, who have helped to fuel sci-fi's spectacular growth over the last several decades, also debate the merit, meaning and impact of the films and novels that influenced them.