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Wilsonatmd

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Saw a couple of commercials for this, starts June 2nd on Monday nights. It's Joe Millionaire in reverse, basically. One guy, 15 women. This time, the women are the ones with a secret. The one who he chooses at the end wins a million dollars, but he doesn't know about it, and they can't tell him.....

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sounds scandelous! Cant wait! :)

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and the other twist.....apparently at the end the woman will have to choose between the money or him......

Beachcomber88

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 09:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm...1 million bucks versus a schmuck that you've known for what, all of four weeks? Doesn't seem like that difficult of a decision to me! Especially since not a single one of these dating/bachelor shows has shown that the relationship can last after the cameras are turned off. Hopefully Trista and Ryan will be able to break this predictable pattern.

Blame ABC and Fox for how cynical I've become.

Fabnsab

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 06:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think this is the first show where I believe someone is being victimized. This guy goes on thinking he is trying to find his dream girl but all he gets is a slap in the face because all the girls are using him as the tool to win money. Joe Millionaire was bad but at least the girl he chose would have cultivated real emotions(s we hope) and will still walk away with the guy. This guy won't have anything. He is a pawn.

Beachcomber88

Monday, May 19, 2003 - 12:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, if it's anything like Joe Millionaire, maybe he'll at least get $500,000. They should have some contingency - if they're still together in a year, then they'll get the money. You're right Fabnsab, it's not fair to the guy. Totally being used.

Is anybody original anymore? NBC is blatantly ripping off Fox with this one. I wonder how they set up the show for the unlucky schmuck. "It's like Bachelor, but we're on NBC." I'm a big fan of reality tv, but I personally am getting sick of all these dating shows.

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 10:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
NBC has high hopes for this one....so high they've greenlit a second season even before the first starts (obstensibly to get the second season's cast picked and underway before the first season starts and reveals the concept). The second go-round will reverse the process...15 guys and one girl.

Happymom

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 09:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I sure hope they have everyone picked already for both seasons. Who would even agree to be the one guy or the one girl knowing how it's going to end, knowing they have almost no chance of being chosen over the million $. How could they keep the one guy or one girl from knowing this especially for a 2nd season if we all know about it already?

Fabnsab, ITA w/everything you said. Joe Millionaire was like a sort of cruel joke. This is much worse. How can I watch this knowing that there will not only be no chance for a happy ending, but probably a devastating ending? I probably won't watch this show.

I'm also surprised to see that it will be on NBC.

Crazydog

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 09:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Won't be watching. Fox made a fool out of me with Joe, I won't be fooled again. The poor guy. He's being used and here the whole concept is to get the guy to choose you and then dump him for the money.

Theowl

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OH, but can you imagine the Cat-Fights!!!

Crazydog

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 11:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
True, I'm sure there will be catfights. This show seems too similar to the Bachelor. On Bachelor the women are competing against each other for the prize, a wealthy and good looking man. Here, they are competing for the prize which is a million dollars.

The only difference I see is that this show is based on a lie. The women will have to pretend to be really into him to get him to keep them. I wonder if the women know they have to dump him to get the money.

Now watch, the girl who gets picked will fall in love with the guy and give NBC that Hollywood Ending like in Joe Millionaire. Pffffttttt. I don't understand why she can't reject him and then later on contact him and get together. It's not like NBC is going to be able to spy on them 24 hours a day.

Beachcomber88

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 11:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think NBC will get exactly what it wants with this one... girls who are willing to flirt more, show some skin, and compromise values in order to ensure that they're the final one. If anything, at least the poor guy will get a very memorable four or so weeks in his probably otherwise mundane life.

Sorry...all I can picture now is Aaron's mega-cheesy line - "So...you want to take it to the hottub and share a bottle of vino?"

Crazydog

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 09:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I saw a commercial for this. The most annoying thing? The guy has got that Joe Millionaire longish shaggy hair thing going on. I don't know what's more annoying, the fact that that's his hair or that NBC is trying to cast a Joe-look a like in the hopes that people will watch.

Llkoolaid

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This kind of smells like prostitution to me.

Wendo

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I'm going to watch the first show to check it out. I dunno, all these "dating" shows have women and men getting used now.

And hey, who knows, maybe true love will happen?

(Probably not.)

Anyway, I'll still check it out. Ya never know...

Mack

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 09:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My thoughts exactly Llkoolaid. This show could get really crude by the end.

Beachcomber88

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 09:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I will not watch this show. I will not watch this show. I will not watch this show.

There, I said it. Hopefully I can avoid getting sucked in. Although I said that about Top Model, RR/RW Battle of the Sexes, the list goes on and on...

Froggiegirl621

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 11:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I will be watching! I enjoyed Joe Millionaire, so I'm figuring that I'll enjoy this too. If anything, it will at least give me a good laugh!

Mlt

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know what's going to happen, don't you? You're going to get some poor shmuck of a woman who is going to fall head over heals in love with this man, choose him over the million dollars, and then have him dump her before the show even airs. (Take the money, woman!)

I'm going to watch just to find out if the woman is smart enough to take the money <g>

Kady

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 08:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Since there is nothing but repeats on the other channels, I will watch the first show. If it too awful, I won't bother with the rest. I have a long book list that I have been yearning to get to.

Draheid

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
loveormoney
The "Contestants"

Gina8642

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Blonde enough for you? Olny five of the women have dark hair.

I'll definately watch the first show.

Auntiemike

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 02:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know...this show seems to be mean spirited to me. He is really being singled out. When it was the other way around (ie. Joe M. or Bachelor), the girls (women) could always withdraw from the competition if they felt like it. Does this guy have the option of pulling out????? Not sure I'll watch this one. The whole idea seems pretty weak to me.

Jhezzie

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Before I shed a tear for the "poor" bachelor, I have to think, unless he lived in a remote cave in BF Afghanistan and has never, ever peeped TV dating shows, he has to know what the score is. Maybe it's cynical of me, but be for real! He'll get macked on by 15 beautiful women, he'll live in posh digs and he'll get his 15 mins. worth of fame and money. And I think he KNOWS this.:)

Clp

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 05:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know how much difference it makes, but the women think that whoever wins gets the million and the guy. They don't know they have to chose either.

From Extratv.com

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But the man in the middle has no idea this search for love is about to turn into a quest for cash because the one he chooses will win $1,000,000. And no one knows that in the end the winner must choose between the man of her dreams or a million bucks.




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