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Seamonkey

Monday, December 29, 2003 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, then, Dopey won't do it.

Pamy

Monday, December 29, 2003 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Sea! Thanks Not1, I forgot about that area!!!

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
a little more info on the "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance" show...apparently the twist is, the woman is only partly in on the thing. She knew ahead of time that the plan was to try to fool her family to win $500,000 (the storyline she's giving to her family is that she had already been on a reality show and met the "fiance", and this is the "sequel" to the first show involving the wedding plans and ceremony)....what she DOESN'T know is that the "fat obnoxious fiance" is really an actor trying to sabatoge everything...She thinks he (and his "family" who are also actors) are real people, and that the "fiance" is the other contestant in the show--trying to get his family to go along with the wedding so he can win $500,000 as well (a million split between the two of them). In fact the first time they meet is just before they introduce each other to their families, so she doesn't know he's a "fat obnoxious fiance"........she also doesn't know that if she gets all the way thru the ceremony (including the "I do's") without spilling the beans, she gets the whole million, and not just half....the show shows all the prep for the wedding, including the rehersal dinner, the bridal shower, and the bachelor and bachelorette parties..and everything is designed to go out of control (thru the actors involved) in an attempt to try to stop the wedding.

The show runs for six episodes, and the ending is supposed to be "wild"...it's produced by Rocket Science Labratories (the Temptation Island people)

Mak1

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Southwest Airlines sent this link in their latest email: newurl{Airline}
It premieres January 5 at 10 p.m. on A&E.

There is a video preview on the website. They promote it as "Airline, we all have our baggage. Each week, this fast-paced series showcases the real life thrills, chills and spills behind the scenes of Southwest Airlines. Each and every day, SA pilots, flight attendants, and airport employees interact with a gaggle of harried executives, howling children, inebriated adults, tall passengers hoping for a little legroom and every other breed of weary sojourner. A&E Network goes behind the counter, into the cockpit and beyond the tarmac for this new real life series." It showcases LAX and Chicago Midway airports.

Wink

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Mak. I was in Midway last month flying Southwest. I'll be on the lookout for some familiar faces.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 5:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you! I just caught the tail end of a promo about this and missed the details. I have it in my calendar. It looks like it will be fabulous.

Pamy

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember hearing about a show where people would call in and vote on what they wanted the guy featured on the show to do next.

Anyone hear about this? When/where is it on?

Mware

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy, the show you're thinking of is Todd TV. It starts this week on FX network. You can read up about it here:

Todd TV

Draheid

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy: Could that be FX's new show ToddTV which premiers January 21st??

Pamy

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Mware and Dra!!! YES that is it!!

I have another question..where can I find the TV times listing thread? what area??

Thanks!!!

Seamonkey

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here, Pamy: Reality TV Times It is a top level thread..

Pamy

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Sea!!

Gadzooks

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In this week's tv guide (Canadian Edition) they have listed a bunch of new shows on the way in the next few months. The dates have not been announced yet.

PLAYING IT STRAIGHT (FOX) Mondays A woman attempts to find Mr. Right from a group of single men, some of whom are gay.

THE NEXT ACTION STAR (NBC) Fourteen contestants take part in various stunts in a bid to win a starring role in an NBC TV movie

THE SWAP (ABC) Two women switch households for 10 days.

THE COMPLEX (FOX) A cross between Melrose Place and Trading Spaces, this reality show sees couples renovate condos and try to sell them.

LOVE SHACK (NBC) Two men living in a house for six weeks meeting with potential female suitors.

THE SWAN (ABC) Women get extreme makeovers and then compete against each other in a 2 hour beauty contest.

Wilsonatmd
Member

01-23-2001

Monday, February 02, 2004 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fox has scheduled two new shows for March, and here's a little more on them:

Playing it Straight (Starts 3/12), takes place on a dude ranch in Nevada. Jackie, the chooser, and all other men know the twist in this show beforehand; some of the men are gay. If Jackie's final choice is straight, she and him will split $1million. If her final choice is gay, she wins nothing, he wins the whole million.

The Swan (starts 3/29) is sort of a version of Extreme Makeover. 18 women get a complete makeover, which would include plastic surgery. There are two twists, however. The first is, there will be a beauty pagent at the end of the series involving some of the contestants, to see who has transformed into "The Swan", who has most changed-a panel of judges pick one person each week to advance from two people. The second twist is...well interesting. While the judges, the viewers, and the contestant's families will be able to all see the results, the contestants will be sequestered, WITHOUT MIRRORS, until the pagent, so they won't see the results themselves until the very end of the series.....

Rslover
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11-19-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
AMISH IN THE CITY
the new series takes five 16-year-old Amish kids who leave their cloistered community for the outside world and all of its temptations. The five teens will be matched up with five "mainstream young adults" of UPN's choosing in a house in a city that has not yet been determined.

"Amish in the City" is only the working title for the new reality series that's set to air this summer. It's based on the Amish community's coming-of-age experience known as rumspringa (the word means "running wild") in which Amish teens leave the fold and intentionally subject themselves to temptation to test their religious convictions, before deciding whether to join the Amish church. If they return to the flock, only then are they baptized into the Amish church.

Asked by one stunned critic why on earth they would allow television producers to manipulate and massage a ceremony that will literally alter the course of these kids' lives, Moonves, who also oversees the CBS network, joked, "Well, we couldn't do 'The Beverly Hillbillies.' "

"The Amish don't have as good a lobbying group," he quipped. He was referring, of course, to the kerfuffle that erupted among the sensitive when word got out a year and a half ago that CBS was developing a reality series based on the 1960s sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies."

CBS had planned to take some poor rubes from the country and plunk them down in Beverly Hills for a year for the amusement of the American TV-viewing public, until the hue and cry went up. Most unamused was the Center for Rural Strategies, which protested the show's premise mightily and got itself a lot of press attention to boot.

Executives insisted "Amish in the City" would be "totally respectful" and is "not intended to insult." Moonves called it a "fish out of water" project in which viewers will watch teens who have never had a TV set and who would freak out at what they saw if they walked down Rodeo Drive.

Ostroff admitted the program would "definitely require special casting skills." And Moonves said they will have Amish consultants working on the show -- "if we can find them."



Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For any French speaking fans who get Quebec TV, my Dad tells me there is a combination Big Brother/American Idol/ Popstar show there now called Star Academy 2.

This is how he describes it...

quote:

I have started watching our STAR ACADEMY 2 in French on Sunday evening at 1930 on TVA ( They sing and dance with French Canadian singing stars each week). It is a bit like CANADIAN IDOL except they are 7 boys and 7 gals in a huge beautiful building turned into a music and dance school ( at Saint Adelle)

They will be there for 9 weeks ( some will be eliminated as we go along by public vote and by the teachers

We can watch them all day long on computer as they go through the training plus the private parts of their life there as there are cameras everywhere in the building, the pool, the sauna, bed rooms ( 2 one for men one for girls.)

There is a daily 1/2 hour TV program at 1930 hrs on TVA showing highlights of their day. The winner will make a full CD and Video and get the profit of it.






Scorpiomoon
Member

06-06-2002

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 12:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!

I LOVE boxing and I was hoping this show would get picked up and IT HAS! I CAN' WAIT!

Oh my gosh! I am so excited about this show! And with Mark Burnett being involed, you just know it's going to be promising.

'Contender' Finds Match at NBC
Mon February 23, 2004 01:44 AM ET

By Cynthia Littleton
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A high-priced "Contender" has landed at NBC.

The network has given a 16-episode order to the boxing-themed reality show "The Contender," which will feature Sylvester Stallone as the on-air frontman. Stallone will also executive produce the DreamWorks TV/Mark Burnett Prods. project with DreamWorks principal Jeffrey Katzenberg and "Survivor" guru Burnett.

The series has been described as the "search for the real Rocky," a reference to Stallone's 1976 Oscar-winning film. Each episode of "The Contender" will conclude with a boxing match between two amateur pugilists gleaned from a nationwide search for aspiring boxers, but the show will delve into the personal backgrounds of the dozen or so contenders who make it to the final rounds. It's understood that NBC is eyeing an early 2005 debut date for the show.

The project was shopped to each of the Big Four networks last week. Sources said the producers asked for a hefty license fee of more than $2 million per hour-long episode, and a portion of the advertising time.

One source familiar with the deal said NBC wound up meeting the price, which is believed to be a record for a freshman unscripted series. But other knowledgeable sources maintained that because of the interest at ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC and because of the industry heavyweights involved, bidding went well over $2 million per episode.

As for the advertising time, sources said NBC worked out an unusual arrangement with DreamWorks and Burnett Prods. where the producers will buy at least six 30-second spots at NBC's going rate in each episode in order to resell them to advertisers.

NBC executives declined to comment on the deal, but sources said the arrangement would likely help facilitate integrated advertising deals with sponsors aiming to get their brands woven into the ring with "The Contender" in addition to buying commercial time on the show. DreamWorks and Burnett are also exploring the possibility of launching a new boxing league in connection with "The Contender," although sources stressed that the ambitious idea was still in the embryonic stage.

Burnett is already in business with NBC as the executive producer of "The Apprentice," as well as last year's limited-run series "The Restaurant." He also has a scripted drama series in development at NBC about a group of people trying to survive on a remote island after a plane crash.

It's understood that Jeff Wald, veteran Hollywood talent manager who has also handled such boxers Mike Tyson and George Foreman, played a big part in getting Stallone involved in "The Contender."

Meanwhile, Foreman, a two-time world heavyweight champion, surfaced Friday as the host of a similarly themed show being developed by sportscaster Jim Lampley.

The project will bring a group of heavyweights together to live in a house with Foreman while they train with him and practice on one another. The William Morris Agency is shopping the project to network and cable buyers.

"Boxers are modern-day gladiators, and this series will challenge these contenders -- physically, mentally and spiritually -- to be the best they can be," Lampley said.

Scorpiomoon
Member

06-06-2002

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
More about "The Contender". I'm so totally going to be on this show like butter on popcorn.

NBC in 'Contender's' Corner
Wed February 25, 2004 07:36 AM ET

By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - On Sylvester Stallone's home turf -- the no-frills L.A. Boxing Club in a gritty part of downtown Los Angeles where he trains -- the actor along with producer Mark Burnett officially announced "The Contender," a new reality boxing series for NBC.

Sitting in front of a kickboxing ring decorated in white, red and blue, the two, who executive produce the project with DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, fielded questions Tuesday from reporters about the series, which will chronicle the lives of 16 aspiring boxers who vie for the top prize, which will include a monetary component as well as a chance at becoming a professional prizefighter.

"I'm going to be Donald Thump," Stallone quipped when asked to compare his role on the show to that of Donald Trump on Burnett's hit reality series "The Apprentice" on NBC.

There is an idea about getting such boxing greats as Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier to appear on the DreamWorks TV/Mark Burnett Prods. show, and they may even spar with Stallone.

"Me actually going in the ring with a few of these people and friends, I think that will be kind of fun," Stallone said.

The winner will not sign with any of the existing professional boxing organizations. Burnett confirmed that the goal is to launch a new federation that will handle the best contenders on the show.

"Right now, the focus is first of all to take 16 fighters and give them a chance," Burnett said. "But going forward, yes, the intention is to protect these fighters and give them a chance."

Happymom
Member

01-20-2003

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't really care for boxing, but that Donald Thump comment is too funny!

I'm such a reality tv junkie that I'll probably check this out.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
this one sounds interesting on the learning channel..bosses doing the job of the workers for a week! The CEo doing hotel housecleaning, cleaning toilets. I'd love to see that!

From Yahoo:

Bosses in Staffers' Shoes Get Reality Check

Fri Mar 5, 3:42 AM ET
By Jui Chakravorty

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Never having cleaned a bathroom in his life, Jonathan Tisch was down on his knees, scrubbing with great effort but little interest, under the watchful eye of his supervisor.


Tisch, the chief executive officer of Loews Hotels, a unit of Loews Corp., was one of several CEOs to get down and dirty for a week's worth of labor in the new reality-based show "Now Who's Boss?" airing March 8 on cable's The Learning Channel.

The grueling week humbled them, said the executives, who agreed to work in lower-level jobs in their own companies, but it also made them affect changes in the workplace.

Tisch -- after pushing housekeeping supplies and luggage carts all over the Loews Miami Beach Hotel -- decided to change the staff uniforms. "These just get way too hot. We need to change the fabric," he said from a plush conference room at his corporate offices in New York. "We also need to upgrade the uniforms to make them look hip and trendy."

Tisch, a third-generation hotelier, also decided to make some technological changes that will reduce the time it takes to check in guests.

Representing industries from hospitality to cosmetics, the executives were trained by the flight attendants, housekeeping staff and restaurant busers, whose jobs they performed.

The temporary duties of John Selvaggio, president of Song Air Service, the low-cost carrier of Delta Air Lines, included making sushi and disposing of raw sewage. He also became aware of more efficient ways of time-management.

"I asked myself: Can you have caterers load an airplane, while cleaners are cleaning it, while passengers are boarding it?" Selvaggio said in an interview. "And I realized while working on the plane -- Yes, we can."

Selvaggio helped reduce turn-around time for planes from one hour and 20 minutes to just 40 minutes.

Song, known for its tempting and varied menus, sells food on its flights -- unlike most other airlines. The carrier hired all its flight attendants from its parent, Delta Air Lines.

"Since flight attendants always served food at Delta, I noticed they knew how to serve the food, but not how to sell it," said Selvaggio, who walked up and down the aircraft aisle, selling candy bars to passengers unaware of his identity.

"I made a sales pitch out of it. I had a better time and the customers had a better time. Oh, and I sold every single Snickers bar we had on board," he said.

Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield, co-chairmen of California Pizza Kitchen, washed dishes, bused tables and made pizzas for five days each.

After a total of 10 days labor, it took them less than two days to implement changes in the kitchen. First, they added two tubs for dishwashing, where previously, all knives, forks and spoons were tossed into one tub. "Then (the staff) had to put (their) hands in there and it was somewhat dangerous and took a lot of time because forks are going one way, knives are going another," Rosenfield said.

It was a relatively minor change, but one that speeded up the process of dishwashing and made it safer. "We got great thanks and telephone calls and letters from our busers around the country," Rosenfield added.

Also, after spending hours spraying and polishing the glass front doors of the restaurants, the executives agreed the doors should be redesigned with "a stainless steel plate where people push on them, so you don't get as many fingerprints," Rosenfield said.

The series, based on the popular British show "Back to the Floor," has six episodes.



Representing the lucrative beauty products industry, Dan Brestle, group president at The Estee Lauder Companies, spent several days making, shipping and selling cosmetics.

Afterward, he suggested a two-day program to teach make-up artists at Stila, an Estee Lauder cosmetics unit, how to sell the make-up they are now trained to apply.

At Loews Miami Beach Hotel, housekeeping supervisor Sara Roiz was charged with training CEO Jonathan Tisch to perform various tasks -- from making beds to cleaning bathrooms. When asked if she would hire him as a hotel employee, she replied: "We'd have to see if he can make it through the three-week training period. Frankly, I don't think he can take it."

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Has anyone heard about a show they are casting right now that is like Amazing Race??

I also heard they are casting GIlligans Island, anyone know where to go to get info on these?

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who's the Boss Now sounds like a lot of fun, Jan. Thanks for posting about it. I've already DVRed the season of 8 episodes. TLC usually runs shows several times, though, so it will probably be easy to catch it.

Re Gilligan's Island, The Specious Report reports:
Just as CBS announces a reality-series version of The Beverly Hillbillies, and Fox Broadcasting says a nonfiction comedy that mirrors Green Acres is in development, Warner's WB Network revealed plans to use Gilligan's Island as it's first foray into the reality arena.

The show will take seven average people and strand them on a tropical island. Cameras will document the "castaways" trying to make due only with what the island provides, and a few meager provisions salvaged from the "wreckage" of the S. S. Minnow.

"This will be unique among all other reality shows," executive producer Aaron Spelling explained. "Instead of contestants being voted off the island, each episode will end with their efforts to leave being thwarted by some unforeseen calamity."

Spelling went on to explain that one of the "challenges" will be to memorize scripted dialogue each week. "And we'll be throwing in some unexpected plot twists too - like robots and Russian cosmonauts," Spelling promised.

The WB studio has been holding open auditions for a professor, a farm girl, a wealthy older married couple and, of course, a portly skipper and inept first mate. Spelling announced the role of female "movie star" has already been taken by his daughter Tory. (Gee, what a surprise!)

But Spelling denied suggestions that the show is simply a remake of old Gilligan scripts, and that he is only producing the series to get his daughter out of the house.


Wilsonatmd
Member

01-23-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
a little more on the Gilligan's Island thing...I don't think Spelling is involved anymore, but the creators of the series are now on board. It's a firm go for later this year, but it's going to be on TBS Superstation, not WB.

Scorpiomoon
Member

06-06-2002

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"...robots and Russian cosmonauts"? That might explain why Spelling is out. :-)

"Now Who's Boss?" sounds like it will be good--touching and heart-warming. It's too damn bad it took these people to be on a reality show to make changes that benefit their employees.

I'll be watching.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 11:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thx purplecow!...Where do you go to find out how to apply for Gilligan's island?