• NBC moves this fall's fourth 'Average Joe' edition to Tuesdays at 8PM

  May 19, 2004
  As part of the introduction of its new prime-time schedule for the 2004-05 season on Monday, NBC announced that this fall's upcoming fourth installment of its Average Joe series will move from the program's previous Mondays at 10PM time period to Tuesdays at 8PM ET/PT.
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  Bill Rancic trumps Kwame Jackson to become The Donald's 'Apprentice'

  April 16, 2004
  In the two-hour season finale of NBC's The Apprentice, New York City real-estate mogul Donald Trump selected Chicago native Bill Rancic, 32, founder of the web site Cigars Around the World, to be "The Apprentice."
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  'Apprentice' finalist Bill Rancic dating former 'Bachelor 3' fiancee Jen Schefft

  April 15, 2004
  In one of the more interesting recent pieces of reality TV show gossip, Extra! and the Chicago Sun-Times report that Bill Rancic, one of the two finalists on NBC's The Apprentice, is dating Jen Schefft, the woman selected by Andrew Firestone as his bride-to-be on ABC's The Bachelor 3.

• NBC planning 'Plain Jane' spinoff of 'Average Joe' for fall schedule

  April 2, 2004
  Still giddy over the success that its Average Joe reality show has had in improving the network's Monday nights at 10 PM ratings performance, NBC has announced that it is planning additional installments of the franchise, starting with a gender-reversed Plain Jane edition of the series which will premiere this fall.

• CBS and Napster make 'Star Search' finalists music available for online purchase

  March 12, 2004
  CBS has announced that Napster, the digital music service featuring the world’s largest and most diverse online collection of music, will offer singles from the Star Search finalists, marking the first time that music from a televised singing competition will be available for download.

• GSN cable network acquires rights to NBC's 'Average Joe' and 'Dog Eat Dog' series

  March 10, 2004
  As part of their previously announced rebranding strategy that includes the addition of more reality-focused programming, GSN, the cable channel formerly known as Game Show Network, has announced that it has acquired the rebroadcast rights to NBC's Average Joe and Dog Eat Dog series.

• Ratings: 'Bachelorette 2' finale draws only 13.5 million viewers

  March 2, 2004
  Is the bloom finally off the Bachelor franchise rose, or did much of America just agree that Meredith made a rather boring bachelorette?

• 'Bachelor's Andrew Firestone and Jen Schefft getting back together?

  February 12, 2004
  Are Andrew Firestone, the millionaire at the center of ABC's third edition of The Bachelor, and Jen Schefft, the woman to which he proposed during the program's finale, getting back to together only two months after their extremely public breakup announcement?

• NBC to air 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' marathon on Superbowl Sunday

  January 18, 2004
  It turns out The WB won't be the only major broadcast network looking to counter-program the Superbowl with reality television.

• Rejected "joe" Adam Mesh to return in his own 'Average Joe: Adam Returns' series

  January 14, 2004
  Anyone else getting a "Bachelor Bob" deja vu feeling? Apparently rejected Average Joe suitor Adam Mesh's "very happy" relationship with his new girlfriend has ended, because NBC has announced that Adam will be returning to the reality dating show scene for his own aptly titled Average Joe: Adam Returns reality series.

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