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Rslover

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 10:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Which show are you looking forward to watching?

Spygirl

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am looking forward to the Celebrity Mole.

Kizz

Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 05:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In the "Looking Good Is The Best Revenge" category, my vote goes to Trista and "The Bachelorette", closely followed by the new edition of "Meet My Folks"

Laura11103

Friday, January 03, 2003 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
BATTLE OF THE SEXES!!!!
Celebrity Mole
Last Resort
HS Reunion


Now I just gotta make a schedule so I can keep up, lol.

Ryn

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All those shows are listed on the Reality TV Times :)

Times are not listed since it varies where you are, but links to each shows web site is listed.

Essence

Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 06:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Long, but interesting. http://www.msnbc.com/news/870866.asp

The business of reality TV

They generate big advertising bucks, but will America burn out?

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Contestant Sarah dances with Evan Marriott during the reality series "Joe Millionaire." The Feb. 17 finale is expected to draw more than 20 million viewers.<


By Jane Weaver
MSNBC

Feb. 10 — The next wave of reality television breaks this week with the Feb. 13 premiere of “Survivor: The Amazon” on CBS going head-to-head against ABC’s “Are you hot? The search for America’s sexiest people.” Reality programming is driving the TV business right now, but is the hot programming genre really a bargain for the TV networks or a fad that will burnout faster than Kelly Clarkson’s career?

“JOE MILLIONAIRE” may be a liar, but his ratings are the real thing.

The unexpected success of “Joe Millionaire” — the show about a guy who pretends to be rich so he can get a woman to marry him — and the return of the talent search show “American Idol” have transformed the reality genre from a cheap date into the hottest genre in the television business.

Two weeks ago, News Corp.’s Fox scored its best ratings in 5 years because of the two reality shows, boosting the network’s slumping primetime into the possible winner of the crucial February “sweeps” period, the time when Nielsen ratings determine commercial rates for the next few months.

“American Idol” captured 26.5 million viewers for the first night of its second season Tuesday, Jan. 28, and just under 25 million for the second episode on Wednesday, according to Nielsen Media Research. The first few episodes of “American Idol” have bested the 22.3 million viewers who watched the show’s final episode in September when cocktail waitress Kelly Clarkson out-sang the bouncy-haired Justin Guarini.

“Joe Millionaire,” which premiered in early January, was seen by more than 20 million viewers last Monday, vaulting that new show into the Top 10.

The Feb. 17 season finale of “Joe Millionaire” where Evan Marriott — the construction worker posing as a millionaire — picks one of two lucky women as the winner, is expected to top that.

In fact, one week into February sweeps, Fox was ahead of top-rated NBC by 1/10th of 1 rating point, NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker told CNBC late last week.

The feeding frenzy is on with more than 20 reality-based shows scheduled to debut through the summer. Virtually any concept that can be imagined — from “The Will,” a show about wealthy heirs battling for a fortune, to “Exhaustion,” about people who stay awake for days — is either already on a network line-up or being pitched to to programming executives.

Then there are reality pitches for the next stunt man. The next supermodel. The next comedian. Subtle twists on the same formula.

“They’re all trying to replicate the success of ‘American Idol,’ ” said David Goldberg, president of Endemol USA, the international production development company behind “Fear Factor” and “Big Brother,” which is returning to CBS for its fourth edition this summer. “The mentality now is, ‘let’s throw as much stuff on the wall and see what sticks.”

The short-term economics of reality TV are enticing. They attract a huge female audience of 18-49 year-olds, the age range most coveted by advertisers.

“They are a magnet for young women,” said Roy Rothstein, vice president of broadcast research for Zenith Media.

The record ratings for “American Idol” are being matched by near-record ad prices. Fox is asking almost $1 million for a 30-second spot in the finale of “American Idol” in May, more than twice the cost of a commercial on the show’s final episode last year, according to ad agency sources.

Comparatively, a 30-second commercial for the hit show “Friends” on NBC costs an estimated $450,000.

REAL CHEAP?
Unscripted shows cost from $500,000 to $700,000 for a new series compared to $1.2 million for a typical drama or sitcom or an estimated $2.3 million for a hit like “West Wing” on NBC.

But reality may not always be as profitable for the TV networks as the ratings imply. They’re cheaper to produce, but rating point for rating point, demographic for demographic, an unproven reality show doesn’t command the same ad rates as a new drama or comedy, media agency executives say.

While “American Idol” has attracted multi-million dollar sponsorships from AT&T Wireless, Coca-Cola and Ford Motor Co., other reality shows with gross-out or questionable content like NBC’s “Fear Factor” have a harder time selling ads.

Toyota Motor Sales, which has run ads during “The Bachelorette” passed on the new ABC reality show, “I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here,” which debuts on Feb. 19. The shows airs for 15 consecutive nights and features “celebrities” like Robin Leach and Melissa Rivers stranded in the Australian rain forest.

“We thought the premise was a little silly,” said Deborah Wallmeyer, corporate marketing manager. “It’s not worth it.”

QUICK HIT, NO REPEATS
Reality’s the rage now, but the shows don’t repeat well beyond the same week, cutting into the lucrative money networks make when programs go into reruns and into syndication.

As an executive from a rival network said about Fox’s “Joe Millionaire,” “It’s a phenomenal quick hit, but what do they do next time? It has questionable lasting power.”

Ed Martin, programming editor of the Myers Report, a media industry newsletter agreed.

“The networks are becoming increasingly aware they save money going in, but they don’t make any money on the back end with reality shows,” he said.

Yet as the ratings have zoomed, Madison Avenue has been taking the format more seriously.

“For every client we pull out we have another client willing to run in [reality],” said Jon Mandel, co-chief executive and chief negotiator at MediaCom in New York, a media agency whose clients include ConAgra, Hasbro, Reebok and Subway.

“There are advertisers who view some reality more favorably and within the content appropriateness of their brand and others who avoid reality just as they might avoid an inappropriate comedy,” said Marc Goldstein, chief executive of Mindshare, a media buying firm.

A REALITY GLUT
Reality viewers are fickle. Shows can flame and burnout quickly. Ratings for MTV’s hit “The Osbournes” plunged in its second season from a peak of 8 million viewers in its debut last year to a low of 3.5 million in mid-January. “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson had a hit radio song last fall, but is often jokingly referred to now as “Kelly who?”

Some industry executives wonder if the reality helps a network hang onto audiences beyond the buzz.

“The problem is it works now but over the long haul it does nothing to build your brand as a network,” said Mediacom’s Mandel. “They’re beginning to realize that but don’t know what to do with it.”

After “Joe Millionaire” Fox is ready to premiere “Married by America,” a show where the audience determines who will get hitched,” making the 9 p.m. Monday slot its reality-hour franchise time.

Will the young women who enjoy watching other young women being duped by a phony millionaire develop a loyalty for the network and come back for other shows?

Media buying firm Mindshare has begun studying those questions, analyzing viewers who watch reality shows and how much other program they watch on the network, said CEO Goldstein.

HOW FAR CAN IT GO?
It’ll be the “Summer of Reality” as the broadcast networks saturated their line-ups with unscripted fare. NBC plans to bring back “Crime and Punishment” and “Dog Eat Dog.” ABC has three series on the summer schedule along with four new midseason reality shows. CBS has a new reality sweepstakes, “Cupid” in the works for summer.

Media executive Mandel calls the race for the next breakthrough reality show a “nuclear proliferation of ‘can you top this?’ Others say that reality works because the shows require little time commitment from busy young people.

Endemol’s Goldberg is hoping the crack the formula for mixing scripted programming and reality. A sitcom meets reality where real people interact, knowingly or not, with actors.

“It’s been tried, but we’re excited about making it work,” he said.

Obviously, reality is here to stay.

“Reality has given the network the opportunity to put on summer program that is a bit less expensive and is original and potentially retain an audience they have been losing to cable networks during summer repeats,” said Mindshare’s Goldstein. “There will be a weeding process and we will see fewer than we’re looking at in the short-term horizon.”

Eight shows you'll be seeing soon.
"Married by America"
Network: Fox

Premise: The chance to marry the person of your dreams, but only if the home audience approves. Viewers decide the young singles' fate.

Debut: March 10

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"All-American Girl"
Network: ABC
Premise: A look at beauty pageants where contestants are judged on intelligence, dancing and singing ability, beauty and personality. The winner to be chosen by viewers.

Debut: March 13


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"Extreme Makeover"
Network: ABC
Premise: A six-episode series taken from the popular special.

Debut: April 3


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"The Swap"
Network: ABC
Premise: Taken from the British TV hit, "Wife Swap," the series follows 2 women who switch homes, children and husbands--but not marital beds--for 2 weeks. In the U.K., the show stirred controversy by pairing a white woman vocally opposed to "mixed marriages" with a black racist.

Debut: Summer


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"The Restaurant"
Network: NBC
Premise: A six-episode drama set in a New York City restaurant, following the rushed life of a chef.

Debut: Summer


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"The Fast and the Furious"
Network: NBC
Premise: Certain to court controversy, a show about street racing. NBC executives have promised to take precautions to ensure the safety of participants, but it's hard to imagine what advertisers will want to be seen sponsoring illegal driving.

Debut: Summer


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"The Real Beverly Hillbillies"
Network: CBS
Premise: Network executives are on a hick hunt in the Appalachian backwoods for a family to star in the planned series. Protests that the show would make fun of poor rural people have caused CBS president Les Moonves to back away from the concept.

Debut: To be determined.


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"Green Acres"
Network: Fox
Premise: Fox is said to be in talks with Paris Hilton, 21-year-old Hilton Hotel heiress, to star in the new series about a rich family roughing it in a country cabin.

Debut: To be determined.

Curtisahahahaha

Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 07:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
re: The Real Beverly Hillbillies

I wonder where Anna Nicole's cousin lives! The network execs should start the hunt in that town!

Wilsonatmd

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 03:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
info on two more new shows planned....both are....interesting....

from Yahoo via EOnline!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=797&ncid=763&e=8&u=/eo/20030402/en_tv_eo/11554


By Joal Ryan

Reality TV is nothing if not the people's medium. You can aspire to be anything: A singing star, the wife of a rich guy, a codpiece-wearer.

Yes, the genre that gave us American Idol and The Bachelor will no longer exclude those whose dearest desire is to save the world from baddies (while wearing tights and a codpiece, natch). Enter: Who Wants to Be a Superhero?


Not a misprint, the WB has given the go-ahead for a six-episode run of a reality series aimed at introducing a new super man (or woman) to the people of Gotham and beyond.


To clarify, the show's talent scouts won't be looking for people who can bounce bullets off their chests, rather, for people who can dream up characters who bounce bullets off their chests.


The brainchild of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee and Meet My Folks producer Bruce Nash, Superhero seeks to find material for a potential new comic book series.


The series is penciled in for next season.


"The tone of the show is going to be fun," Nash promised in the Hollywood Reporter. "It's wish-fulfillment, a blend of fantasy and reality."


Befitting a show whose prime demographic would seem to reside in geekdom, Nash said Superhero will not focus on "sexual tension" like other reality series.


Instead, the show will focus on people willing to pitch their ideas before a panel of celebrity judges and, later, become one with their characters by donning costumes and competing in acts of would-be daring do--all part of the so-called "superhero makeover."


Plans are for the celeb judges to be culled from the ranks of actors who have played superheroes in TV and film. (That ringing sound you hear is Adam West calling his agent.)


For those who don't think Who Wants to Be a Superhero poses enough of a challenge, may we interest you in Donald Trump?


The Manhattan real-estate mogul has agreed to star in The Apprentice, yet another new reality series, this one from NBC and Survivor guru Mark Burnett, to pit go-getter against go-getter in the corporate world.


The network has ordered 13 episodes. No word yet on an airdate, although it's thought that it, too, will debut sometime next season.


On The Apprentice, 20 contestants, ranging from, as NBC says, "Ivy League MBA graduates [to] street entrepreneurs with no college education," will work at Trump's Trump Organization, performing "sometimes humorous but always difficult job assignments."


Trump will grill, er, interview the hopefuls, and, at the end of each episode, fire somebody. (And they say reality TV is fake...)


In the end, the winner gets to work for Trump. (Or would that be the loser?) Actually, it's not such a bad deal--a six-figure salary comes with the job.


In a statement, Trump, who previously committed to a reality game show that never got off the ground, said he is "truly excited" to work on The Apprentice.


"Mentoring up-and-coming executives has been something I've always enjoyed," Trump said. And since getting attention has always been something he's enjoyed, too, the project's a true win-win.

In the NBC release, Trump, 56, is described as the focus of the show's first season, indicating that if future seasons are warranted, other moguls will be tapped to be "master" to a new cast of "apprentices."

Maybe if Kingpin isn't busy with Who Wants to Be a Superhero?...

Car54

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Coming next week to TLC, looks like this is replacing Faking It on Friday nights:

Love U- the premise is an engaged couple, put through a five day series of trials meant to test them on their readiness for marriage.

LOVE U

First episode:

Jeff and Chanél

Jeff and Chanél met on the Internet. They're young and in love, but what are their issues? Find out when the "Professors" take a look at Jeff and Chanél's entrance interview. Then, our couple jumps into the Love U. curriculum with a study in compromise and personal space. See what happens when two people try to combine differing tastes. At stake their most cherished possessions, when each is given free reign to throw out five things belonging to the other.

Tune in Friday, April 11, at 10 p.m. ET/PT for Jeff and Chanél's episode.






Kaili

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 07:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Celebrity Look Alike Dating

This isn't a series- it's just a one hour special that I just read about- here is the thing from the WB website..

Last, but certainly not least, The WB will present a fun-filled special, CELEBRITY LOOK-ALIKE DATING, on May 16. This one-hour special hosted by Godfrey ("Zoolander" and the 7-Up commercials) features ordinary people impersonating real-life celebrity couples in various scenarios for as long as the charade can last. A prize will be given to the winners who are chosen by the audience and a guest panel.

Crossfire

Monday, May 19, 2003 - 03:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This was surprising to me. Did you guys know that Amazing Race 3 did not do all that well?

Link

I was just reading this article on CNN/Money which included this clip:


Quote:

In fact, this past season was known for the reality bombs as much as the reality hits, with each network having at least one reality show it would rather forget, such as ABC's "Are You Hot," NBC's "Meet My Folks" or CBS's "Amazing Race 3," none of which could break into the top 80 shows or last as many as 10 episodes.




It had never occurred to me to lump AR:3 in the same category as the Are you Hot program. I thought there were simply an order of magnitude in class apart.

Strange stuff, for whatever reason, I thought AR was in the big leagues with AI and Survivor.

Crazydog

Monday, May 19, 2003 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like TAR2 before it, TAR3 struggled in the ratings. It was up against both "The Bachelor" and "The West Wing". "The Bachelor" especially took away a lot of its audience.

But it did last 10 episodes (it went 11, with 13 hours of programming), and I think the fact that CBS renewed it plus moved it to a better night and time shows that they have faith in TAR.

Crossfire

Monday, May 19, 2003 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahh, interesting Thanks for that extra perspective. I was unaware of its timeslot competition as I've never been a Bachelor ot West Wing viewer.

I wonder how much the new timeslot will help. I like the program, I'd hate to see it get axed.

Draheid

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 12:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
NBC lists this program rather obscurely. I don't have any idea if it will be a recurring program or not.
Sunday, June 1st 8/7pm
The Search for America's Most Talented Senior
Celebrity judges Shirley Jones, Barry Williams and Estelle Harris join host Mario Lopez as America's talented seniors compete for a cash prize. Talents range from dancing and singing to rapping and musical numbers.


Also, E! Entertainment has a special coming up:
SHOW TITLE: Your 15 Minutes Are Up
CATEGORY: Reality
SYNOPSIS: Former reality TV stars tell how there brush with fame has affected them.
DATE / TIME: May 28: 9:00PM, 10:30PM
May 31: 10:00AM, 7:00PM
June 1: 8:00AM, 2:00PM
LENGTH: 60 Minutes
NOTES: English

No idea who will be featured on this show yet. E!'s website doesn't give any information about it at this time. The above was listed on Zap2it.com

Draheid

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 07:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
VH1 is airing a show called 'Reality Wrap-Up' which appears to provide clips of many current reality shows in a 30 minute recap. Air times according to my Tivo schedule are:
05/30 - 9:00PM05/31 - 12:30PM05/31 - 4:30PM
06/01 - 2:00PM06/02 - 5:30PM06/06 - 9:00PM
06/07 - 11:00AM06/07 - 10:30PM06/08 - 12:30PM
All times central - check local listings

I'm sure many of these will be repeats. Here is a list of shows reviewed on the episode that aired 05/26 - 3:00PM CT:
American IdolMr. Personality
Top ModelExtreme Makover
Warrior ChallengeDisMissed
Extreme DatingSorority Life
Date PlateBorn To Diva


The format appears to be similar to the old 'Talk Soup' on E!.

FWIW