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hi back, marty. did you and the family have nice holidays? your kindness has not been forgotten.

zeke, yes, you are too much man for network TV. maybe a pay-per-vue venue...

Hey Marty...
How ya been? Not too much going on here... raked about 10 bags of leaves yesterday.... much, much better than shoveling snow like someone else I know on this board...

Fox Says "Temptation Island" Residents
Tested for Sexually Transmitted Disease
By David Bauder
The Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Fox television says its racy new reality
series, "Temptation Island," is not about sex - but the show's
participants were tested for sexually transmitted diseases.

Conservative and religious groups are up in arms after only seeing
promos for the series, which debuts Wednesday. It depicts four
couples brought to a steamy island overrun with scantily clad
singles, urged to test the boundaries of their relationships.

Fox executives defended "Temptation Island" on Sunday, while at
the same time stepping back from last year's promise to stay
away from risque reality.

"This is not a show, as you will see, that is about sex," said
Sandy Grushow, chairman of the Fox Television Entertainment
Group. "This is a show that is exploring the dynamics of serious
relationships."

Still, Fox tested participants for sexually transmitted diseases,
part of an effort by TV networks to be extra careful about the
background of reality show participants. Fox was burned last
spring when it came out that its "Who Wants to Marry a
Multimillionaire" groom, Rick Rockwell, had a restraining order
issued against him by an ex-fiancee.

Fox refused to say whether any of its "Temptation Island"
participants succumbed to temptation.

The show's first episode has "Survivor" parallels. The men and
women in the committed relationships have the chance to vote off
"Temptation Island" - actually a resort off Belize - people they think
their mates would want to date.

Among the singles brought on for temptation were a former Laker
dancer, a former Playboy model, Miss Georgia 2000, the founder
of an online dating service and a massage therapist. Two men
didn't want their female partners to date the masseur.

One participant, a man, described his two-week vacation as like
"going to participate in a Pepsi challenge, except it's ladies
instead of a soft drink."

The four men were sent to one side of the island to stay with the
single women, and the women to live with the single men. The
second show ends with a bonfire ceremony where the participants
could watch a videotape of a person who dated their mate.

The American Family Association, a conservative watchdog group,
has urged its followers to protest the show, and a Dallas rabbi
asked his local station not to air it.

"The producers of 'Temptation Island' should be ashamed of
themselves for trying to force the destruction of four relationships
for the entertainment purposes of those low-lifes who consent to
watch this trash," said Brent Bozell, founder of the Parents
Television Council.

It's a long way, Bozell said, from "The Dating Game," which
celebrated the creation of new relationships.

"I don't think this is a show that endeavors to pry apart couples,"
Grushow said, urging people not to pre-judge it.

He claimed the show is less provocative than the commercials
hawking it. After having seen two episodes, he said it falls "within
the boundaries of appropriateness."

When the quickie marriage of Rockwell and Darva Conger blew up
in Fox's face last spring, Grushow publicly said the network was
getting out of the sleazy reality show business it pioneered.

"They're gone," he said then. "They're over." Any subsequent
non-fiction programming had to meet tougher taste tests, he
promised.

Since then, the success of "Survivor" on CBS proved the public
has an appetite for the genre, Grushow said Sunday. He'd be
negligent as a businessman not to allow his programming people
to pursue it, he said.

"I don't think it's about distancing myself from anything," he said.
"We work in a dynamic business and things change."

None of Fox's affiliates have said they won't air "Temptation Island"
after having seen a rough draft, he said

Fox has another series in the works called "Love Cruise." This one
puts a group of singles together on a boat and pairs them off in
games and activities designed to find a mate. Like "Survivor,"
participants are gradually voted off.

There are no apparent winners or losers on "Temptation Island."

Grushow, in a meeting with TV critics on Sunday, was asked
whether Fox provided condoms to island participants.

"I'm not going to glorify that question with a response," he said.

Had no plans, none, zip, zero to watch this...until the statement "appeals to the low lifes who watch this sort of trash".... Hot damn! Honey, they made show in BEEleeeze just for us.

This is gonna interrupt that metal skirt project we was workin' on for the house. )And whats that deal about providin' condiments to the stars of the show?)

The show was filmed at Captain Morgan's and Mata Chica in September. We stayed at Captain Morgan's while the Fox Team was preparing for filming. The Fox people where nice and fun to talk to. We left before the models and couples arrived and filming started. Can't wait to see it! I think they will show lots of Belize. Who cares if the show is about sex as long as it shows Belize. Nothing wrong with nice looking people in bathing suites.

correction: captn morgans and journeys end, not mata chica. the producers were at je when i was there in august.

choochoo, yes, this should be interesting...

oh, this week's tv guide has a write up too. they say " the setting is san pedro, a lush, palm tree-laced, banana daqueri soaked island off the coast of belize". huh? the female singles all appear to be models, dancers, actors, etc, just looking for exposure. there is no cash prize. it goes on..."producers are hoping their story lines - both hurtful and heartfelt - will keep people mesmerized. (exec producer says)'it is human interaction, that is what this is all about'" a girl single says "i like to have fun, go wild and crazy!", a guy says "they dont have rings on their fingers or anything..."

sounds like a real crock to me. hey denny, i'd rather shovel snow than that load of shit anyday!!! (but you know i will still be watching!).

just read entertainment weekly's take on it:

"the concept behind this new reality show - having four couples enticed by hot-to-trot singles in the caribbean - is completely without any redeeming social value...and we are SO psyched!!" airs 9-10 PM on FOX 1/10 rated TV-14

Saw Paisano several times over Christmas. Pretty sure he said that he had replaced one of the male "seducers" on the series since he could out talk, wrestle and flimflam all of them. (That Brit Army haircut helped a bit too).

Describing San Pedro as "lush" is probably quite accurate..except it's not those fruity banana things. The lushes in SP are much more inclined to Belikin, and tumblers of rum with a splash of Coke thrown in for a little color. (And of course we all know what the more cosmopolitan "low-lifes" in lush SP choose. Bombs away.)