Why Beauty and the Geek’s host quit as Jeopardy’s new host after one day
Jeopardy’s executive producer Mike Richards quit as host of Jeopardy one day after taking over over Alex Trebek’s old job.
Beauty and the Geek
MTV casting “celebrity” Beauty and the Geek that would star former Real Worlders, Playmates
MTV is negotiating to acquire the former CW series Beauty and the Geek, but will change the format so that the beauties are “celebrities,” emphasis on the scare quotes. “MTV wants a celebrity version of the show, where average geeks compete for semi-famous” women, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and “the celebrity girls probably will …
Beauty and the Geek may be revived on a new network
The CW put Beauty and the Geek on hiatus last spring, and has since cancelled it, following a very low-rated fifth season that began with a premiere that was watched by only half the previous season’s premiere’s audience. But the show may soon find new life on another network. Twentieth Century Fox Television co-chair Gary …
CW putting Beauty and the Geek on hiatus, may cancel it
The current season of Beauty and the Geek will probably be the show’s last season for a while, and could be the last season ever. The fifth season–which concludes May 13 and I completely forgot was even on, perhaps because they decided to dump their usual format after their old format got tired–has had low …
Beauty and the Geek 5 debut loses about half the previous season debut’s audience
Beauty and the Geek 5‘s debut Tuesday night drew about half of the people that have tuned in to the past two season debuts. It was watched by just 1.9 million people, and “was down 47% from its season debut last fall and down 59% from its January debut last year,” according to the Hollywood …
Beauties and geeks will compete against each other on Beauty and the Geek 5
For Beauty and the Geek‘s fifth season, the female beauties and male geeks will not compete in pairs, but instead will compete against each other. While “the new contestants learn they will be competing not as beauty/geek pairs but beauties vs. geeks,” those teams will be formed from the same groups as before: “nine gorgeous …
LARPer Dave and cheerleader Jasmine win Beauty and the Geek 4; CW casting for fifth season
The fourth season of Beauty and the Geek concluded last night, and Dave and Jasmine were selected by viewers as the winner of the $250,000 prize. They defeated the show’s first-ever reversed couple, CW actor Sam Horrigan and musicology student Nicole Morgan. (The full episode is online.) Even David and Jasmine don’t know what the …