Here is a link and the text to a recent article from Realitynewsonline....

http://www.realitynewsonline.com/article1252.html

After the release of the film Die Hard, Hollywood dutifully attempted to repeat their success with several movies that were described as “Die Hard on a .” Similarly, after the monumental success of the Survivor series, a new crop of reality TV wannabes is flooding the airwaves.

One of the latest is Love Cruise, premiering September 11 and featuring sixteen singles looking for love and, of course, money on the high seas. Eight men (left) and eight women (top) will spend 10 days onboard a tall ship cruising through the Caribbean. They’ll try to find a love connection while competing in physical challenges and relationship games that supposedly test their compatibility. The games may not set the contestants on a course for true love, but they will undoubtedly cause tensions to rise.

At the end of each episode, the men will vote off a female contestant and the women will follow suit by voting off a male player. When only two couples remain, they will face a jury of their former shipmates (which seems to be the most popular reality show method of handing out the cash these days). The winning couple receives $100,000 and a cruise around the world.

Judging by promo spots being shown on Fox, things are going to get a bit heated under the Caribbean sun. Expect lots of tears, tantrums and verbal sparring – this is one cruise ship where shuffleboard is not going to be the main attraction.

Since members of the opposite sex vote contestants out, strategy will be a tricky business. The basis for voting players out of the game will depend on many different factors. Is a player getting close to too many members of the other side? Not enough? Contestants will be walking a fine line on this love boat.

So just how much sex and sizzle will take place? It’s hard to say. Only time will tell whether this batch of reality show contestants have secret criminal records and violent tendencies, like some of the cast members of Big Brother 2.

Of course, the most compelling question is this (considering how the union between Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger worked out): Once the winning couple embarks on their ‘round-the-world cruise, how long will it be before they have separate cabins?

Stacey Allison is an advertising copywriter living in Toronto.

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Thanks Shakes! (I still miss your revolving clown head...)
Just wanted to mention it never "sunk" in on me before that the whole duration was only 10 days. That's what, 25% of Survivor, about the 3rd TC? No matter how hot and heavy and competitive, that's not a lot of time to develop real bonds. Should be interesting though. I'm sure you're a fast worker.

*Thinks it's not even long enough for ALL the women to get PMS*

it never
>"sunk" in on me before
>that the whole duration was
>only 10 days.

...actually, the whole cruise is about 3 weeks...i don't know why I keep reading 10 days or 15 days, the incorrect info is really starting to bother me. But, at least they are no longer saying that the show premieres January 4, 2001 like several news sources were still doing well into last June.

Guess who?

Hey Shakes?
I don't get your pic, empty box.

> Guess who?

Oh, sure *I* change the sig to the above and the man gets all upset... but now he changes it to the same thing and it's all cool

Oh you know celebs Webby, they like to have creative control.

Thanks for the timeline clarification. 3 weeks seems like a reasonable amount of time for people to play this through. 10 days just seemed WRONG, and guess what, it was...
Could 10 be approximately the number of episodes? Do you know how many weeks the show will run?
By the way I do like your sig pic, M, and with the blue border it looks very nautical.

Webby, I also love the design and colors in this forum.
I even like the blue checks around the edges!

>Could 10 be approximately the number
>of episodes? Do you
>know how many weeks the
>show will run?

Show is 7 ep's, but they squeeze the 7 eps into something like 29 days (some weeks with 2 ep's)

>Webby, I also love the design
>and colors in this forum.
>
>I even like the blue checks
>around the edges!

Thanks... the checks here are implemented in a new layout that I'll be trying to apply to the other forums, but it might take a few weeks.