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The Amazing
Race
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Plot
Outline
The Amazing Race sees 12 teams race around the globe
for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations including Thailand,
New Zealand, Namibia, Brazil, South Africa, Hong Kong and
Australia. |
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Plot
Synopsis
12 teams of 2 players each racing around the world,
trying not to be eliminated at a series of checkpoints in
which the last team to arrive is booted from the show. CBS
chooses teams with relationships containing at least some
tension, especially when the situation involves intense pressure. |
America's Got Talent
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Plot
Synopsis
America's Got Talent is a television show
on NBC. The talent show is a search for America's next best
amateur talent act. It features singers, dancers, magicians,
comedians and other talents of all ages. Anyone who believes
they have talent can audition. |
America's Next Top Model
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Plot
Outline
A cyclical competition where women from all over the
U.S. compete for the honor of being America's next "it
girl" in the modeling world. |
American Idol
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Plot
Outline
Twelve finalists and/or future singers (six men
and six women) who were selected from America, compete in
a talent contest in which they were asked to sing any song
they like on this "Star Search" clone. After each
song that was sung, the judges, Abdul, Jackson and Cowell,
then critique that finalist's chosen song. After each show's
ending, America must vote for a finalist to whom they really
think their performance is good using this AT&T (now
Cingular Wireless) or any other cellular phone to cast votes
with. Once the votes are locked in, the judges and America
decides who has the most votes and the least amount of votes,
and the contestant with the least amount of votes is eliminated,
and it goes on each week's show until the winner is crowned
as "American Idol," where he/she wins a recording
contract worth up to $1,000,000. The rest of the other finalists
to whom they have been voted off before (the runner-up) also
get recording contracts, too. |
The Apprentice
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Plot
Outline
A reality-TV based show in which contestants compete
for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald
Trump. |
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Plot
Synopsis
"The Apprentice" is a 15-episode unscripted
drama in which 16 candidates from all walks of life, including
both Ivy League MBA graduates and street entrepreneurs with
no college education, will endure rigorous tasks each week
while living together in a hip Manhattan loft apartment.
The tasks will test their intelligence, chutzpah and street-smarts.
They will face the challenges of living in close quarters
and compete, sometimes humorous but always difficult job
assignments and will be forced to think outside the box in
order to outshine each other to get to the top. Upon their
arrival to New York City (some for the very first time),
the 16 candidates will be rushed over to Trump Tower to meet
with Donald Trump, the centerpiece and driving force of this
series. After splitting the group into two teams of 8, Trump
then issues the first task. Teams will be given time constraints
for each task and they will be observed by either Trump himself
or members of his staff at every moment along the way. At
the conclusion of each task, the winning team will be granted
a lavish reward but the losing team must report immediately
to Trump's boardroom where one of them will be fired. Tasks
each week will incorporate various aspects of business: sales,
marketing, promotions, charities, real estate deals, finance,
advertising pitches and facilities management. Most of them
will be assignments that executives face in their daily lives.
The big twist is that our teams are thrown out to the wolves
of the New York business world with only a few days to complete
incredibly difficult tasks, many of which have hundreds of
thousands of dollars at stake. This is the ultimate corporate
jungle. Where staying alive, means using both street
smarts and book smarts. The winner of the competition, the
true "apprentice" will be granted the dream job
of a lifetime with The Trump Organization and a salary of
$250,000. |
Big Brother
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Plot
Outline
Contestants must compete against each other for
a chance to win $500,000 in a house wired with cameras and
microphones, capturing their every move for a TV and Internet
audience. |
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Plot
Synopsis
Based on the Dutch series, thirteen strangers who
are living in a studio-like house that's filled with cameras
and microphones, compete in a series of physical and mental
stunts, and some challenging trivia at a chance at $500,000
in this reality soap opera-like summer program. Thirteen
of those house guests live in 13 different states. America
will watch every single move they compete to be the last
one standing, after having twelve house guests evicted. These
strangers are the contestants who think they have absolutely
nothing in common, and a few are in a shock for their lives.
The house guests begin to introduce other people at the Big
Brother house. It's the first time they will get to know
each other and they're not allowed to say not one word with
them until they are in the Big Brother house. The thirteen
will be living in the same house for the following three
months. They may either find their best friend or worst enemy
in that group; and in the end, it's every man for themselves.
Then, contestants who have performed their stunts are asked
to vote for the person who should be kicked out of the house
(which happens to be the loser), and the guest with the most
votes, is the loser and will be evicted from the Big Brother
household. However, if the participant wins his/her stunts,
then the player will be named "Head of the Household," for
a week. The guest who stays in the house longer than anybody
else wins $500,000. |
The Biggest Loser
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Plot
Synopsis
Twelve determined, overweight people arrive at a
ranch to face two trainers, two diets and two different approaches
to weight loss. If they can survive the physical challenges,
the mental anguish and the constant temptations – the
Biggest Loser will be the biggest winner. What's their reward?
Not just a new lease on a healthy lifestyle, but also $250,000. |
Buy It Now
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Plot
Synopsis
This feel-good series will help families realize
one of their most meaningful dreams by putting a variety
of prized possessions up for auction on eBay. Not only will
family members have to willingly part with these beloved
items for the sake of a greater cause, but relatives, friends
and hopefully even the whole town will donate items in an
effort to raise the necessary funds to fulfill the worthy
dream. Besides auctioning off the usual personal belongings,
the friends, family and community will come up with other
unusual, creative auction-worthy schemes. |
Dr. 90210
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Plot
Outline
This reality series follows the professional and personal
lives of several Beverly Hills plastic surgeons as they
nip, tuck, augment and slice their way through their patients |
Extreme Makeover
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Plot
Synopsis
Each week selected individuals for this
show experience the wide scope of makeover possibilities.
Each episode focuses on two individuals as their makeover
story progresses. The participants undergo a series of
makeover techniques including dieting, fitness and cosmetic
surgery. Board-certified doctors perform various cosmetic
procedures on everyday people, which have not only improved
their appearance, but have also changed their lives. |
Extreme Makeover (Home Edition)
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Plot
Outline
A family that has faced hardship has their dilapidated
house completely rebuilt while they are away on vacation
for a week. |
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Plot
Synopsis
A family that has faced hardship has their dilapidated
house completely rebuilt while they are away on vacation
for a week. While early episodes renovated houses, the usual
approach is to tear down the house on the first day and build
a brand new, usually much larger, one, fully furnished. The
houses are customized to the families, with rooms reflecting
the interests of, especially, the children, and special technology
for any unusual medical conditions. Host Ty Pennington usually
has a "secret" project which is only revealed when
the family sees it. The construction is accomplished with
the help of a large army of blue-shirted volunteers and a
wide array of sponsor-donated products and services. |
Fear Factor
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Plot
Synopsis
In each pulse-racing "Fear Factor" episode,
contestants (sometimes solo, often paired with spouses, siblings
or best friends) recruited from across the nation must decide
if they have the guts and determination to face their most
primal fears. Under the supervision of professional Hollywood
stunt coordinators, contestants are confronted with a series
of challenging stunts. If they complete their task they advance;
if fear stops them from completing a stunt or they fail the
mission, they are immediately eliminated. The contestant
who wins the final challenge takes home the prize. |
Flavor of Love
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Plot
Synopsis
In "Flavor of Love," 20 single women from
all walks of life, selected for their expressed love for
Flav, move into a "phat crib" in Los Angeles and
vie for his affection. With help and advice from Big Rick,
Flav's gigantic body-guard and chauffeur, Flavor Flav dates
all of the women, eventually weeding out the ones who are
only after his fame and fortune...and in the end will choose
his one true love. |
Hells Kitchen
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Plot
Synopsis
Chef Gordon Ramsay turns up the heat in HELL'S KITCHEN
on FOX. World Renowned Chef, Gordon Ramsay, equally
famous for his temper as for his culinary creations, will
put 15 wannabe top chefs through their paces on all aspects
of fine dining and restaurant management to determine who’s
got what it takes to open their own eatery. |
How to Get the Guy
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Plot
Synopsis
The Emmy Award winning producers: David Collins & David
Metzler team with ABC on this romantic reality series. The
show follows the trials and tribulations of love as seen
through the eyes of four young, attractive and available
women who are looking for Mr. Right. Shot docu-soap style
at over 150-locations throughout San Francisco, the one-hour
format will follow four single women over six episodes as
they take hold of their own romantic destinies and declare
to the world that they are ready, willing and able to do
anything and everything they have to in order to find true
love. Accompanying the ladies on their journey are two "Love
Coaches," Emmy-winning writer and award-winning journalist
Teresa Strasser and well-known television host JD Roberto.
Lending the "he said/she said" perspective to the
women's search, Strasser and Roberto will guide each lady
throughout a series of events that ultimately leaves them
learning more about love than any of them thought possible. |
Last Comic Standing
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Plot
Synopsis
The Emmy-nominated series is back with a new season
of laughs and surprises, and for the first time ever in the
show's history, America will get to choose the "Last
Comic Standing." Anthony Clark ('Yes, Dear") hosts
the lively laugh fest, which begins with a nationwide talent
search for professional and aspiring comedians. Talent
scouts Bob Read and Ross Mark travel across the country,
searching for the funniest comics to compete for the ultimate
prize - an exclusive talent contract with NBC and a comedy
special on Bravo. |
Masters of Champions
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Plot
Synopsis
Each week six competitors face off with some of
the world's most unique talents in this one-hour variety
competition to determine the best of the best. The best judges
in the business will pare the contestants down to three,
who will then stand before a live studio audience for the
final selection... as the next "Master Champion!" Contestants
will be competing in such unique and extreme challenges as
Interpretive Pizza Tossing, Extreme Unicycle Obstacle Course
and Amazing Drift Driving. In some competitions, two competitors
perform the same stunt and the judges decide on the best.
In other contests, two competitors perform different and
unique tasks. Judges score them first, and the last three
standing face the audience for final judgment. The winner
will have earned the title Master Champion and have his/her
name permanently inscribed on the Master of Champions Wall
of Fame. |
Nashville Star
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Plot
Synopsis
This show is Country music's version of American
Idol. There are 12 final contestants, selected from
a field of over 8000 participants. The twelve contestants
perform live every Saturday night from the Roy Acuff Theater
in Nashville. The contestants' personal lives are chronicled
as they perform original material and cover songs and try
to avoid elimination from each round. A winner is chosen
at The Grand Finale. The grand prize winner will receive
a recording contract from Sony Music Nashville. Clint
Black is the show's creative consultant-mentor and produces
the contestants CD, which will be released within six weeks
of the show's end. |
One Ocean View
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Plot
Outline
The show focuses on young New York City professionals
who flee Manhattan on Friday afternoons to share a house
in an exclusive beach community for the weekends. The series'
producers include Jonathan Murray, a producer of MTV's "The
Real World." |
The One: Making a Music Star
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Plot
Synopsis
Based on the international sensation, the series
will follow the lives of contestants as they attend a fully
functioning music academy that turns aspiring singers into
music stars through professional training. The show will
follow all the drama in the music academy, as it offers vocal
coaching and celebrity mentors who will turn potential into
talent in a state-of-the-art training and recording facility.
Each week contestants will perform live for the American
audience, who will have to vote to keep their favorites in
the competition. |
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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Plot
Synopsis
They are the Fab 5: an elite team of gay men who
have dedicated their lives to extolling the simple virtues
of style, taste and class.
Each week their mission is to transform
a style-deficient and culture-deprived straight man from
drab to fab in each of their respective categories: fashion,
food and wine, interior design, grooming and culture.
It's
a full lifestyle make-over — a make better show
where straight guys turn in their pleats for flat fronts,
learn about wines that don’t
come in a jug and come to understand why hand soap is not a good shampoo (and
vice versa). When the journey is done, a freshly scrubbed, newly enlightened,
ultra hip man emerges. |
The Real World
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Plot
Synopsis
Each year, series producers choose a group of seven
people in their 20s, from different backgrounds and countries,
to live together in a major city. The series presents their
spontaneous, unscripted interactions with one another and
the world around them. |
Road Rules
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Plot
Synopsis
Each year, series producers choose a group of seven
people in their 20s, from different backgrounds and countries,
to live together in a major city. The series presents their
spontaneous, unscripted interactions with one another and
the world around them. |
Rock Star
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Plot
Synopsis
CBS and Mark Burnett Productions present Rock Star.
The show is hosted by Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction
and Brooke Burns. It features 15 contestants vying for the
lead singer role of either past famous bands (INXS, Van Halen)
or a newly formed super group with the likes of legendary
rocker’s like Tommy Lee & Gilby Clarke. After
weeks of performances in which the audience votes for their
favorite rockers, one rock star is selected to lead the band
on it’s next tour and album. |
So You Think You Can Dance
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Plot
Synopsis
Cat Deeley, one of the leading television hosts
in the UK, is the host of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. FOX
teams up with the creators of AMERICAN IDOL and the producers
of the "American Music Awards" and "American
Bandstand" on the ultimate search for the nation's best
dancer |
Starting Over
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Plot
Synopsis
Half-dozen women gather in a house to help each
other improve their lives, all the while being filmed for
television. What sounds like a friendlier Big Brother, The
new syndicated series “Starting Over” promises
to fuse reality TV with a daytime soap theme. It also
widely introduces the concept of “life coaches,” individuals
hired to guide people toward personal or professional fulfillment. |
Survivor
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Plot Outline
A competition/reality
show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote
location with little more than the clothes on their back.
The contestants start off divided into two teams that
compete against each other, with the losing team forced
to vote a member off; when the numbers are reduced to
10 contestants, the teams merge and it's everyone for
him- or herself. The lone survivor of this process takes
home a million dollars. |
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Plot
Synopsis
The First Survivor
featured sixteen average Americans (divided into two
tribes which eventually merge into one) were sequestered
on the deserted island of Pulau Tiga for 39 days. For
their stay, they must learn to live as a tribe, although
eventually, it is everyone for themselves. They compete
in challenges for "luxuries" (a barbecue, a
phone call home, etc.) and immunity. Every three days,
the losers of the latter challenges must face tribal
council, where they will account for their actions by
voting one person off of the island. At the end of day
39, there will be only one survivor left who will leave
the island with one million dollars. Based on the Swedish
game show, "Operation Robinson." |
The Swan
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Plot
Outline
A reality show about an ugly duckling turned beautiful
swan, only it's a woman giving herself a physical makeover
with plastic surgery, to compete in a beauty pageant. |
Trading Spaces
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Plot
Synopsis
Two teams, two days, $1000. Each with the help of
a professional designer and carpenter, this show pits neighbor
against neighbor in a race to redecorate a room in each-other's
homes. Can a friendship survive this weekend? |
Trading Spouses
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Plot
Synopsis
Two mothers switch places with each other and live
the other woman's life -- without the husband-wife intimacies,
of course. The FOX spouse swapping reality series will have
a total of five "swaps" with each one airing over
a two week period. FOX's version also plans on adding a few
game elements to the series as well as a couple of "Father" swaps.
Each family appearing on Trading Spouses will receive a $50,000
prize for participating in the show, however, unbeknownst
to the participants, how the cash is spent will be up to
the "surrogate" parent. |
Treasure Hunters
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Plot
Synopsis
Treasure Hunters is the new, quest-oriented unscripted
series that features multi-player teams to be sent on a global
search to solve a puzzle -- and the first team to uncover
all the clues will be given the location of a hidden treasure. "Treasure
Hunters" will focus on the solving of the puzzle instead
of the race itself. "Treasure Hunters" is
produced by NBC Universal Television Studio. |
Wife Swap
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Plot
Synopsis
Wife Swap is not a competition or a contest.
It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds
are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject
of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn't a cash
prize, but a couple's opportunity to re-discover why they
love each other and decided to marry in the first place.
In the first week of the swap, the wives move in with their
new family and adopt their very different lifestyle. They
agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that
sets out the rules of their new household – how they
parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and
their social life. But then, in the second week, everything
changes. The new wives take charge. They introduce their
own set of rules and get to run the new household their way.
It's a radical shock to both families. The results are explosive,
enlightening and often very funny. This is a show about the
things that really matter to families across America. At
the end of the show, the two couples meet for the first time.
In a highly-charged exchange of views, both couples make
a frank assessment of each other and talk about what they've
learned from the experience |
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