Monday, August 07, 2000
Can singles survive 'Love Cruise' adventure?
Are you ready for a Love Cruise? Fox needs nine single men and nine single women ages 22-35 for a 10-day Survivor-style cruise, the first of two reality dating series.
People will be “voted off” the love boat each day, after “revolving match-up dates and sexy games in a search for the perfect mate.”
Fox wants “energetic singles in pursuit of romance.” All must be willing to have themselves videotaped 24 hours a day.
For more information, contact Bunim-Murray Productions (MTV's Real World) on the Internet at www.bunim-murray.com.
The network also needs 30 singles and five couples ages 22-38 for Temptation at an undisclosed exotic location.
Fox will take five couples “at a crossroads in their relationships” and set them up with 30 singles. After dating two weeks, each member of the couple must decide between a possible new love and his or her old flame.
The Temptation production company, Rocket Science Laboratories, needs couples ages 22-38 who have been in a serious relationship for at least six months, but still have doubts about their compatibility. And it needs 30 “single, open-minded” people.
All must be willing to have their lives taped 24 hours a day, and feel comfortable on TV “in a bathing suit and similar attire.”
Temptations applications are on the Internet at www.fox.com/temptation.
More Fox: Freaks and Geeks creators Judd Apatow and Paul Feig will produce a half-hour Fox comedy set in the freshman dorm on a university campus.
“We're happy to be part of this exciting new trend in network television: fully scripted, non-reality programming,” Mr. Apatow and Mr. Feig announced.
Giving credit: Clear Channel has settled a Toledo suit by ordering the morning DJ on “news radio” WSPD-AM to credit the Toledo Blade when he reads the paper's stories on the air.
DJ Mark Standriff can use information from the Blade “only if he broadcasts at the same time a proper, accurate and fair attribution to the Blade,” says the settlement of a suit filed by the newspaper in September in Lucas County Common Pleas Court.
Mr. Standriff had read direct quotations from the Blade as if he had gathered the information himself, the suit said. He also encouraged listeners not to read the paper by saying: “I Read The Blade So You Don't Have To.”
The station said the slogan was a satirical statement that listeners should not take seriously.
Enquirering Mind: This Enquirering mind wants to know: Does the Toledo suit settlement mean Clear Channel's Jim Scott will start crediting The Enquirer when he reads direct quotations and verbatim paragraphs from this paper on his “news radio” WLW-AM (700) morning show?
Around the dial: Danny Glover profiles heroes on Courage at 9-10 p.m. today through Thursday (Fox Family Channel). It will air weekly starting at 9 p.m. next Monday.
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