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Monday, March 18, 2002 - 09:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
An email I received

"My name is Erik Bright and I am with Eddie Michaels & Associates Public Relations. Our company represents the leading reality television producers in the United States, Endemol Entertainment USA.

I am writing you to tell you about Endemol's newest Reality Show, "Under One Roof". This first ever family vs. family reality show airs on UPN, Friday nights @ 8:00pm. Our launch date is March 22nd. I have enclosed show information and bios on the five competing families, the executive producer Bruce Thoms and host, Rob Nelson."



UNDER ONE ROOF, a new family-based reality series, gives five families the opportunity to prove to themselves that life would be simpler and more fulfilling and that they would all get along better, if only they didn’t have the complications and distractions of every day life. UNDER ONE ROOF, hosted by Rob Nelson (“The Full Nelson”), whisks five families away to a verdant, secluded Fijian island where they vie with one another to win a luxurious beach-front home.

As the families live together and work together under one roof, they also compete for the deed to the house. In every episode, the families participate in both Property Quest and Family Face Off competitions, which are inspired by traditional Fijian cultural activities. In the Family Face Off, winners can choose between an advantage item, which may or may not help them in the next series of challenges, or a special prize, which they can enjoy back home. In the Property Quest, winners are awarded valuable ribbons that ultimately determine who gets the deed to the house. At the end of every other episode, the family with the fewest ribbons has to leave the island forever. In the final episode, the remaining two families compete head-to-head in the final quest for the deed to the house.

In order to win, each family must put aside domestic differences and come together as a team. They will need to hone their communication skills and work seamlessly as a unit. They must rely on each member’s strengths to prevail over their real competition, the other families who want the house as much as they do.