The Dating Show For Average People
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10:30AM, Monday March 30th 2009
Finally, TV producers realize there’s more to love than just appearance. Fox and Mike Fleiss, producer of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” are developing a dating competition show that casts “average-looking” people, including overweight competitors. The series, titled “More to Love,” will provide an alternative to the other dating competition shows that feature size-two women and handsome, buff bachelors. “For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that’s not what the dating world looks like,” said Mike Darnell, Fox president of alternative entertainment. “Why don’t real women—the women who watch these shows, for the most part—have a chance to find love too?” The popularity of NBC’s “Big Love” has proven that audiences will watch people who represent the makeup of society, but aren’t considered highly attractive. The show will follow the format of “The Bachelor,” but unlike “Beauty and the Geek” and “Average Joe,” the less-than-handsome guy won’t be paired with model-esque women. Producers describe the bachelor as a “Kevin James-type.” “More to Love” is casting, but no air date has been set, yet. Would you tune in every week to watch people who are as good-looking as you? [Reuters]
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dangerousdebbie
wrote on March 30 2009 @ 04:39 pm: [report]
i’ve never really been a big fan of bachelor-type shows primarily because of the excess amount of skinny/pretty people, but i can’t say i’d reguarly watch a show that was specifically targeting plump people, even though they say “average people.” i mean come on, what else could they possibly be implying by that title? (and i say plump without any negative connotation attached to it) because i feel like all that would be focused on would be the contestants’ weight. if we wanted to have a dating show for normal people, then why do we need to call it “more to love” and invoke images of full figured people? why can’t we have “the bachelor: for normal people?”
Ultraviolet
wrote on March 31 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]
Why does Hollywood appear to have 2 types of people: the beautiful, size 2, chiseled, toned people or the “average” people who tend to be plus size. I’m plus size and I find it irritating that it’s one extreme or the other. It feels like to me that it’s television going “Look at the fat/plump/“more to love” people looking for love! Isn’t that cute!” like it’s some sort of novelty. I like the idea of “the bachelor:for normal people” as well or maybe just “the bachelor season whatever # it is now” instead of giving it it’s own special category. Love is love, dating is dating.
I’m not a fan of the bachelor/ette shows either and I may be a little bit cranky right now!