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FOX officially announces that 'The Simple Life' will return
February 10, 2004
A couple of weeks after Paris Hilton already revealed the second season's premise and Bunim-Murray announced upcoming casting calls, FOX has finally gotten around to announcing one of the worst kept "secrets" in Hollywood -- that Paris and Nicole Richie's The Simple Life will return for a second season.
FOX's 'Playing It Straight,' featuring a 'Boy Meets Boy'-like twist, to premiere March 12
February 3, 2004
FOX is shaping up to have quite a Spring 2004 lineup. Leaving no doubt that they are equal-opportunity offenders, having already gone after the fat and soon the little, FOX has now announced plans to complete their trifecta and go after the gay with its own twisted backwards take on Bravo's previous Boy Meets Boy reality show. And to add insult to injury, they're going to be doing it on Friday nights -- the reality TV kiss of death.
FOX planning 'Forever Eden' -- a new 'Paradise Hotel'-like "never-ending reality soap opera"
January 2, 2004
Has Paradise been lost -- only to be replaced by Eden?
Mark Burnett to produce new 'The Restaurant'-like 'The Casino' reality series for FOX
December 15, 2003
Although the producers of NBC's The Restaurant decided to team back up with chef Rocco DiSpirito for a second season of the restaurant-based reality show, that apparently hasn't stopped one of the producers -- namely Survivor titan Mark Burnett -- from pursuing a previously reported "spin-off" concept of the program, a casino-set version of the program entitled (predictably enough) The Casino. But if you believe Burnett, the new show apparently has no connection to The Restaurant, and he and his new production partner "conceived" of the show independently.
'The Simple Life' producers already plotting sequel to the FOX series
December 2, 2003
One thing we'll never say about FOX is that they're gun-shy. Despite their admission of being "greedy" in trying to go back to the well for a second edition of Joe Millionaire and other bombs such as second and third editions of Temptation Island, talks are apparently already underway for a sequel to the network's The Simple Life reality series that stars Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

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Mike Darnell

Mike Darnell News

FOX officially announces that 'The Simple Life' will return

FOX's 'Playing It Straight,' featuring a 'Boy Meets Boy'-like twist, to premiere March 12

FOX planning 'Forever Eden' -- a new 'Paradise Hotel'-like "never-ending reality soap opera"

Mark Burnett to produce new 'The Restaurant'-like 'The Casino' reality series for FOX

'The Simple Life' producers already plotting sequel to the FOX series