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Grooch

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 10:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Meet the Bachelorettes!

May 10, 2002
ABC brought us "The Bachelor." Now the network that created "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," "Love Cruise," and "Temptation Island" will roll out its newest romance-reality show on Sunday, June 2, at 9 p.m.: "Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska."

"The show is 'Sex and the City' meets 'Northern Exposure,'" says BILL PAOLANTONIO, one of the executive producers of the new FOX reality show, in which four women who want to get married will travel to the frozen tundra.

Over the course of seven episodes, the women will date from a pool of 21 single men, slowly narrowing their searches for Mr. Right. They'll be wooed by hunks from all walks of life -- park rangers, tour boat captains, professional fisherman, teachers, and professional snowboarders. The gals are just as eclectic, from interior designers to software managers.

In the final episode, the men will then have the opportunity to propose marriage, or not, and tell why.

According to Paolantonio, men outnumber women in Alaska. And for that reason, everyone thinks they're hungrier for committed relationships. But "Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska"'s host STEVE SANTAGATI says that's just a myth.

"Anybody who comes to live here knows what they're getting into," Santagati says. "If you come with the delusional idea of it being romantic, as soon as the temperature drops and the sun shuts down, you're going to get reality right in the face."

Everyone in the lower 48 speculates what Alaskan men are like. There's an expression in the 49th state, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd." The women going up there will find out if that's true for the rest of America to see.

Unlike DARVA CONGER, the women of "Looking for Love" will not be required to marry at the show's conclusion. But they will get their hands dirty dogsledding, ice fishing and performing other outdoor sports.

"The men we want on this show love Alaska and are looking for someone to share that with," adds executive producer SCOTT MESSICK.

What makes "I Want a Husband: Alaska" different from other reality shows? "It's about inclusion," says executive producer ERIC SCHOTZ. "The whole concept is to put people together. The ones who will leave are the ones with whom the men and the women don't have an interest in fostering a relationship."

Littlebreeze

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hold onto your dogsleds. Here we go again.

Admin

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool!

Wink

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Where's Car? Come on girl. This show was made for us.123

Willi

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I could get into this!
:)

Twiggyish

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think this looks like a good show.

Grooch

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I get first dibs!

<But no one can ever replace Baz.>

Moondance

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 12:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
EXCUSE me married ladies this girl is single so I have first dibs!

Grooch

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moon, why didn't you apply for this show?

This one sounds like it would be the most fun to be on. :)

Fruitbat

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When does this air and where? Sounds good! Moon apply for the second season....go buy an anorak.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 01:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Speaking of Darva Conger.. I saw last night on??
ET? that Darva will be on celebrity knockdown? whatever the show is where Paula Jones lost to Tonya Harding.. anyway Darva will be fighting soviet gymnast Olga Korbutt..

I was so sad to see that about Olga, she had a hard life, sent her son to the US after Chernobyl and I think it messed up her health. And her life here hasn't been uphill, recently arrested for shoplifting some small items from a convenience store..


But this Alaska show sounds good to me!! June 2, good timing, we'll be well into TAR and SIV withdrawal.

Car54

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 02:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Has anyone told MsSilhouette? She was wanting a show like this!

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Well speak of the devil and she will appear! I saw the promo for the show when I watched that sad Search for a Playboy centerfold show last week. (I won't go into details about that one...well maybe in another thread)

When I saw the ad I thought FINALLY! The women get a shot! Woohoo and those guys look great! I'm gonna eat this one up with caramel sauce on it!

I LOVE IT!

Prettywomen

Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Can't wait will watch this one thanks.......

Riviere

Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 01:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lived in Alaska more years than anywhere else in my life and still get homesick for it.. I will definitely tune in! Most guys up there really are special, hope the ladies appreciate them!!!

Alaskagal

Monday, May 20, 2002 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Being an Alaskan woman, I just hope they don't portray us as we are so often thought of; Fat, ugly and masculine. People think of us AK woman as rugged natives. We are not all like that. I have lived here for the past 4 years and I swear when we travel and tell people where we are from they look shocked that we look normal.

Angelnikki

Monday, May 20, 2002 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
funny you say that alaskagal... lol
my sister lived there for over 5 years and i always asked her about ak. i finally went there about 5 yrs ago and was there a month and absolutely loved it. i would move there in a second if i had money:) alaska isnt what i thought it was. however, i did see my share of native drunks on the street who were fat and ugly.....but that doesnt have anything to do with the women of ak :)

i love alaska!!!!!

Naniller

Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I lived in alaska for about 15 yrs loved it there...The people are very nice...Can't wait to see this new show the Bachelorettes

Grooch

Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Men, beware: Distaff payback for ABC's ''The Bachelor'' has begun. Thumbing a nose at that show's guy-friendly 25 to 1 odds, Fox is letting women call the shots on ''Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska'' (debuts Sunday, June 2, 9 p.m.).In the first episode, the parka-clad femmes (no sexy ''Survivor'' tube tops on this snowbound series) peruse a pack of more than 40 bachelors before picking a ''Man on Ice'' -- their date for the week.

In each of the following episodes, a group of new men attempt to woo the women away from their current beaus. Think ''Bachelor'' + ''Temptation Island'' +... maturity?

OK, that last is perhaps an overstatement, but these grown-up women (average age: 31) aren't afraid to bare their souls (or bodies) to find Mr. Right.

EW.com gives you the inside track on the potential brides-to-be.

NAME Rebekah
AGE 27
JOB Real estate broker
FROM Los Angeles
CALL HER... The Flirt

THE LOWDOWN At first glance, Rebekah seems like a spunky twentysomething who's grown tired of the L.A. dating scene and is now looking for a lifetime commitment. Yeah, right. The raven-haired beauty may talk a good game about craving ''her one and only,'' but when confronted with a herd of eligible he-man hunks, she gets greedy. ''I was a girl in a candy store,'' she giggles of selecting her Man on Ice, and soon reveals she isn't interested in limiting herself to just one flavor.

MOST LIKELY TO Go home solo, but with a Rolodex of Alaskan phone numbers and a very healthy ego.

NAME Sissie
AGE 31
JOB Interior designer
FROM Myrtle Beach, S.C.
CALL HER... The Good Girl

THE LOWDOWN While some of the Bachelorettes seem a little too citified for the rougher-hewn Alaskans, old-fashioned Sissie seems perfectly in her element. The frizzy blond (even her hair is retro) from South Carolina describes herself as a country girl who loves to fish and pines ''to be a baby machine.'' Short of teleporting back to 1955, a mountain man is probably this gal's best hope for true love.

MOST LIKELY TO Get hitched, then spend the honeymoon ice-fishing

NAME Andrea
AGE 34
JOB Advertising coordinator
FROM San Francisco

CALL HER... The Survivor THE LOWDOWN The feisty redhead has a tragic past: Her first great love died in a drowning accident. Maybe that accounts for her live-for-the-moment enthusiasm. After some initial hesitation, she follows Rebekah's flirtatious lead by pulling out her sexy sweaters and reeling in some promising bachelors. But unlike Rebekah, she gives even the biggest bozos the benefit of the doubt before icing them out. Let's hope she isn't generous to a fault, though; some fish need to be thrown back into the ocean, pronto.

MOST LIKELY TO Have fond memories, no matter what happens


NAME Cecile
AGE 26
JOB Sales analyst
FROM Benicia, Calif.
CALL HER... The Kid

THE LOWDOWN With her Kewpie doll looks and silky hair, Cecile should be the ideal man magnet. Too bad the icy weather seems to have dampened her California girl charms. Although she's perfectly comfortable spilling her guts to her fellow brides, she either clams up around potential Mr. Rights, or mistakenly burdens them with too much of the wrong info (The details on the other guy who stuck his tongue down your throat? Save that for late-night gossip with the girls -- seriously). Cecile didn't really need a change of location to find love. Maturity might have been the missing ingredient all along.

MOST LIKELY TO Swear off men until she's 30

NAME Karen
AGE 36
JOB Business development manager
FROM Hampton, N.H.
CALL HER... The Quiet One

THE LOWDOWN Petite divorcée Karen seems like the shiest of the bunch, but you can bet there's a sly streak waiting to reveal itself. She admits to a taste for younger men, and her first Man on Ice is cute (and young) enough to catch Rebekah's wandering eye. But Karen also appears to be too independent to be any tough guy's hausfrau, or give up her busy life for love near the Arctic Circle. Still, that doesn't mean she can't have a perfectly dandy time sampling Alaska's finest hardbodies.

MOST LIKELY TO Meet Mr. Right Now

Ketchuplover

Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do any women like lazy guys :)

Grooch

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 05:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Starts tomorrow!

Men get turn at humiliation in Fox's 'Alaska'


By Tom Long / The Detroit News


Five single women will visit the wilds of Alaska to choose prospective partners from dozens of hunks in Fox's "Bachelorettes in Alaska."


'Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska'
9 p.m. Sunday on Fox, Channel 2
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As the term Western civilization becomes more and more of an oxymoron, we can take solace in at least this: The rugged men of Alaska apparently have the same capacity for idiocy as the rest of the country. We haven't seen them featured on any demeaning reality television shows of note, so now it's their turn to prove they too will gladly suffer nationally televised humiliation in the name of love.

"Bachelorettes in Alaska" takes five single girls hungering for a good man and drops them in the glaciers of Alaska, where they get to choose prospective partners from dozens of hunky fellas. Each lass grabs a guy and goes off for a week of dating. But then four other guys are thrown into the mix, each getting to pick one of the already attached bachelorettes for a date, thus leaving one girl rejected and four guys worried they're going to be dumped by their former mates. At the end of the week, the girls again each choose one guy to stay and the rest get thrown back into the icy waters of single living.

With these kinds of things, it always helps if there's someone to hate and a real estate broker named Rebekah from -- where else? -- Los Angeles is happy to step right up and play the rhymes with witch. She flirts shamelessly, flaunts her Victoria's Secret body and generally makes all the other women -- Sissie, Karen Cecile and Andrea, for those keeping track -- seem very nice. You pity the fool who ends up proposing to her.

Of course, proposing is exactly where this show is headed at the end of its six-week run. If people actually watch this culling of the northern beef population, you can be sure Fox will be back with "Bachelorettes in Antarctica" soon enough. Or too soon, depending on your perspective.

Grooch

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 05:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
From the NY Daily News:

Fun With Frozen Chosen
Arctic Annies rule contest




LOOKING FOR LOVE: BACHELORETTES IN ALASKA. Sunday night at 9, Fox.


fter all the attacking animals and crashing cars and boxing has-beens on Fox the last few years, you'd think the network would be incapable of serving up anything newly shocking.

Yet "Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska," a six-week dating game, delivered a shock that was as bewildering as it was unexpected.

After watching the first hour, I wanted to see more.


It's north to the future, as these five contestants take their pick of Alaskan men.
Don't misread this as a rave. It's just that after having so many reality series wear out their welcomes, or be unwelcome from the start, the idea that a new one could be entertaining, despite borrowing liberally from others in the genre, comes as a big surprise.

The concept takes ABC's "The Bachelor" and both multiplies and role-reverses it. Instead of one man winnowing a field of dozens of eager young women, "Bachelorettes in Alaska" has five women, ranging in age from 26 to 36, taking their pick among dozens of hardy arctic men.

The scenery plays a big part because many dates consist of outdoor excursions. The ladies meet their first potential mates on a glacier, where they walk among them and make initial selections as if they were choosing cuts of prime meat. The women then spend a little time with their choices, and each other, before a new wave of guys is introduced. (Think "The Fifth Wheel.") This second group competes in an ax toss, with the winner claiming a date with one of the bachelorettes. (Think Neanderthal.) The remaining new men pair off for dates with the leftover contestants. (Think "Blind Date.") Later, the first fellows selected sit on the sidelines, while newcomers plead with their favorite contestant to choose him over the originals. (Think "Survivor.")

Some women are crushed and jealous by this point, because attention is going elsewhere. (Think "Temptation Island.") They begin complaining to or about one another, their conversations captured by hidden cameras. (Think "Big Brother.")

Finally, the women being wooed make their picks, with five more such weekly contests — during which they'll be tempted by yet more groups of men — on the Alaska horizon. (Think "Chains of Love," "The Bachelor" and so on.)

Steve Santagati, the host, plays like a low-rent Johnnie Cochran ("Keep you in play, or send you away!"), but the game itself plays well.

By the end of the first hour, there's a vixen you love to hate, a castoff who generates plenty of pity and the feeling that, before the six weeks are up, the structure of the game, and the individuals chosen to play it, will generate enough sparks and unpredictable turns to make it worth watching.

Kittee3

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 11:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Los Angeles Times - Saturday, June 1, 2002

TELEVISION REVIEW
Husbands Are Big Game in Glacierville
'Bachelorettes in Alaska' finds five single women competing for Mr. Right in ice and snow.

By JOSH FRIEDMAN, Times Staff Writer


Love is cold and calculating.
At least it is in Fox's latest tournament of romance and rejection, "Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska," a variation on ABC's "The Bachelor" with the women mostly in control this time. The games begin at 9 p.m. Sunday.
The premise: Five single women in their 20s and 30s travel from the Lower 48 states to Alaska, where it's snowing rugged men. After six weeks of courting and competing amid awesome glaciers and big skies, each woman hopes to land a husband on her arm.
The players: Andrea, an advertising coordinator from San Francisco; Cecile, a sales analyst from Benicia, Calif.; Karen, a business manager from Hampton, N.H.; Rebekah, a real estate broker from Los Angeles; and Sissie, an interior designer from Myrtle Beach, S.C., plus several dozen local hunks with hobbies such as truck racing and ice fishing.
Sunday's premiere starts with the guys lined up in army formation and the women immediately ignoring host Steve Santagati's admonition not to talk to them (no sexist snickering, please). Each woman picks a first date, staking a claim to her "man on ice."
After a group mingle at the Northern Light lodge, with the svelte and charming Rebekah seizing the aggressor role and working the room, it's voyeur time: Cut to slow-motion smooching and bantering in the various cabins, cue silky saxophone.
Fresh meat is brought in as four new guys square off in an ax toss, with the winner picking a woman to date (Rebekah, to no one's shock). The other women then pick dates among the other new guys, but when Cecile and Andrea grab the same one, he has to make a choice: Cecile gets left out in the cold, with only her man on ice.
In a scene that captures the uneasy camaraderie and competition among the women, Rebekah later tells a fuming Cecile, "You know what, this is a game, sweetie."
Though Rebekah has the dudes dazzled, she may not be the favorite among her peers. Sissie says mockingly, "She wants her Mocha Frappuccino and she wants someone to deliver it to her."
Each episode ends at Proposal Point with the new guys making a plea for the woman of their choice, hoping to supplant her man on ice, but she selects whom to get know better as the contest continues. Sunday night's "pleas" include a basket made from twigs (for Sissie) and a schmaltzy poem (for Rebekah, naturally). Fans of the budding "Survivor"-meets-"Love Connection" genre will probably warm to these proceedings, but for the rest of us, Fox may be coming on too strong, like the suitor who sends a dozen roses every day. Already, the bloom is getting old.

* * *
"Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska" premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday. The network has rated it TV-14-LS (may be inappropriate for viewers younger than 14, with advisories for coarse language and sex).

Ketchuplover

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 11:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My brain is mush. I'll be watching with eyes wide open :) Let the game begin.

Grooch

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Unfortunetely, I am going to miss it. I must watch "The Hamptons" instead.

So I am counting on you guys to give me a great summary after it is over, so I can catch up. :)

Seamonkey

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 01:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Six Feet Under is also on at the same time, season ender too.. followed by new HBO series The Wire..

I'll be taping two and watching HBO probably (downstairs tv has the cable "box" so that is HBO land)

Bachelorettes sounds mean spirited to me and The Hampton's sounds like sad comedown for a good documentarian. But I'll tape and check them out.