ArchivesMissy Elliott’s Road to Stardom, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search debut.
A month of new and returning reality show debuts begins tonight, as UPN kicks off The Road to Stardom and NBC airs the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search. UPN’s new “dramality” series stars and is produced by Missy Elliott; on it, “13 aspiring performers head out coast-to-coast with Grammy Award-winning artist Missy Elliott on one of her concert tours, where some of these select male and female vocalists will travel, live together on the tour bus and compete against each other for $100,000 and the opportunity to become music’s next big sensation.” One performer will be eliminated each week. Thus, despite UPN’s attempt to create a new word (“dramality”) to describe the series, we basically have ((Road Rules + Battle for Ozzfest) x American Idol) ÷ Bands on the Run. The show debuts at 8 p.m. ET.
At the same time, NBC baits the FCC with a new competition series, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search. It features women working selflessly to improve the world around them by performing random acts of kindness. Oh, I kid: They’ll just be in bathing suits all the time. Over six Top Model-like episodes, “[t]welve selected finalists will live in Los Angeles where they will compete for the chance to appear in the best selling issue of any magazine in the world and win a million-dollar modeling contract from NEXT Model Management.”
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Missy Elliott’s Road to Stardom, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search debut.
link to this story + posted Jan. 5, 2005 at 7:10 AM by Andy Dehnart
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