OK, very rare (in fact I can't recall the last one) is the reality show that starts airing it's commercials on TV and I'm not already aware of it (hey, I'm not proud of that, it's just kinda an occupational hazard of the reality tv news site.)

But tonight, I was on the phone and had the TV on mute, and around 10:30PM ET NBC ran a rather legthy commercial for some kinda Joe Millionaire/Bachelor ripoff show that involves one guy, a bunch of women, some secret, and $1,000,000.

Did anyone else see it? The commercial seemed veryyyy long --probably a full minute -- and featured so many scenes of cereomines, group dates, solo dates, etc. that it looks like the show is already completely filmed (and might have been full of possible vidcap spoilers!)

All I caught from the video on my TV was "For Love Or Money..." "coming In June"

-SB

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But I think that the premise of this show is that there are TWO bachelors... one is rich, the other is dirt poor, but the women don't know which is which... basically, it's Joe Millionaire meets Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire.

...I was thinking of ABC's upcoming show "Rich Guy, Poor Guy"... don't know about the NBC one

Ya, I thought about "Rich Guy, Poor Guy," but that's Mike Fleiss' latest Bachelor ripoff for ABC, and I'm 99.9% sure this was NBC not ABC, so I don't think that's it (although the "Bachelorette mansion" in this place and the lighting it used seemed to look like an exact clone of the type of place used by The Bachelor.)

-SB

I saw the commercial the other day also. The premise, from what I could gather, is that one guy gets to pick from a group of women. The big twist is that he thinks they are in it for love, but the woman who is the eventual winner, gets a million dollars. So this promises for lots of crying, whining, and cat fighting for the women trying to win the money.

Also, the "twist" is that all the women know that if they are chosen they will win the million but the guy doesn't know and the ladies are not allowed to tell him.

So the guy thinks the girls are in it for love, when they're really in it for money. Thus the title "For Love or Money". Sure to have a lot of cat fights and back stabbing.

Like Joe Millionaire, this is all leading up to the payoff at the end when the guy finds out it wasn't his scintillating personality and studly good looks (I'm sure his assumption) making them drool all over him.