MTV hopes ‘Hard Times’ will end hard times for ratings -- Can a well-endowed teen make MTV hot again? The youth-obsessed cable network, seeking to stem a years-long ratings slide, thinks it has found just the thing to get back on track: a scripted comedy about a boy with an, um, anatomical gift.

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