'More to Love' -- Fox orders dating competition series for the heavy set

[alienlovechild 75]

The series, titled “More to Love,” is billed as the first “dating show for the rest of us,” throwing open its doors to overweight contestants.

“For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that’s not what the dating world looks like,” Fox president of alternative Mike Darnell said. “Why don’t real women -- the women who watch these shows, for the most part -- have a chance to find love too?”

The project has a similar format to "The Bachelor," where a group of woman compete for a relationship with one man (producers describe him as a “Kevin James-type”). "More to Love" also marks the first time Darnell and Fleiss have teamed for a series in nine years. The duo’s previous dating show was the controversial and groundbreaking 2000 special “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” which set the format template for ABC’s “Bachelor” and a legion of imitators.

“More to Love” was inspired by the recent ratings success of “Bachelor” and the popularity of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” which Darnell credits with shattering an industry assumption that TV viewers only wanted to watch highly attractive people.

Broadcast reality-dating shows such as the CW’s “Beauty and the Geek” and NBC’s “Average Joe” have featured less-than-handsome men but paired them with model-esque women.

Contestants will do the sort of activities seen on “Bachelor,” but producers suspect Jacuzzi or massage dates will take on a different perspective. “More to Love” will have makeover aspects -- when contestants eat a fancy dinner, for instance -- but Fleiss said the focus will not be on physical improvement.

“We want to send the message that you can be the size you are and still be lovable,” he said. “We aren’t going to thin these girls down so they can find love -- that’s a backwards message.”

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/03/fox-more-to-love.html

[peejay 327]

More cushion to push on, eh?

Those boney hips can be real hell in the throws of passion. Damn those runway model types.

[SuperDuper! 230]

And the contestants are hard at work training for this new show.....

[Yoink 7]

The Romans had the Coliseum to watch the demise of social morality... we have FOX

[Chica Yeyé 41]

The Romans had the Coliseum to watch the demise of social morality... we have FOX

[웃 910]

The Romans had the Coliseum to watch the demise of social morality... we have FOX

I'd say MTV/VH1/BET are quite a bit worse than Fox. Oh wait, never mind, your a democrat:

||Fox is the most evil channel in the world. I refuse to watch Fox. Fox is the most evil channel in the world. I refuse to watch Fox. Fox is the most evil channel in the world||<-------What your mind is programmed to think. Remember tax time is coming up. Pay the government an extra 10%, they know how to spend it better than you and they know what is best for you. The bigger the federal bureaucracy is, the better.

Edited March 30, 2009 by Confucian

[MrsCat 6]

The Romans had the Coliseum to watch the demise of social morality... we have FOX

:lol:

[baron555 934]

Eat Less, Exercise More.

[Nagishkaw 510]

0i vey!

[panamania79 2]

The Romans had the Coliseum to watch the demise of social morality... we have FOX

[Mark&Steph 0]

I'd say MTV/VH1/BET are quite a bit worse than Fox. Oh wait, never mind, your a democrat:

||Fox is the most evil channel in the world. I refuse to watch Fox. Fox is the most evil channel in the world. I refuse to watch Fox. Fox is the most evil channel in the world||<-------What your mind is programmed to think. Remember tax time is coming up. Pay the government an extra 10%, they know how to spend it better than you and they know what is best for you. The bigger the federal bureaucracy is, the better.

They canceled Dark Angel on a cliffhanger episode to make room in their schedule for Firefly and then they canceled Firefly after only bothering to show four episodes. They are the most evil channel in the world and don't you forget it. *shakes fist*