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Next is a dating television show produced by Kallissa Productions airing on MTV.

Contestants

Each show consists of two contestants. Usually, one contestant is a male with five female daters, with the other contestant being female with five male daters. However, there are occasionally gay episodes, with the male contestant dating male daters and the female one dating females.

Show

The daters are hidden from the contestant on an RV which follows the contestant's Next van. The date begins with the contestant being shown in a short clip, with the five suitors being shown after. Then, the contestant waits at a predetermined location, used as a site for the date. One of the daters steps out of the RV and, as they step out, the screen freezes and some personal things about the dater appear. Then the date starts. At any point during the date, usually when things start to get boring, unpleasant or the dater has an attribute the contestant does not like, the contestant can shout "next" to the dater and the dater becomes eliminated, receiving US$1 for every minute they last (always rounded up).

At any point, the contestant can give the current dater a choice between a second date or taking the money he or she has earned for each minute the date has lasted. On most shows, the screen freezes and some replays of the dater's date with the contestant are shown. The date ends when all dates have been nexted or when a dater is given the choice between the money or a second date.

It is not uncommon for the contestant to next a dater at first sight. On one episode, a contestant nexted the first four daters and asked the last dater for a second date within the first minute. Faced with the choice of either a date with the contestant she just met, or a dollar, the dater opted for the second date.

Short comment clips from contestants and daters are shown throughout the show.

Unbeknownst to most viewers, the show is partially scripted. Many of the "daters" appear more than once with different names and ages each time.

Trivia

• Two contestants from Flavor of Love Season 1, Pumkin and Cherry were each in different episodes. Pumkin was on the bus and Cherry was the dater on an all-female episode.
• One all-female episode of the show featured erotic actress Cindy Crawford as the main contestant, where she admitted to her date that she had had her first female sexual experience at the age of ten.
• Karamo from MTV's Real World: Philadelphia was the date on one of the gay editions of the show, first broadcast in August 2006.
• Erotic actress Lyla Lei was one of the five girls competing for a date with the main girl contestant in a lesbian themed show, where they listed her career as "Professional Go-Cart Racer."
• Daniel Isaac, who appeared in Panic! At the Disco's video for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" as the groom, was in one episode on the bus, but the main contestant chose someone who got off the bus before.

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