• FOX to air two-hour 'Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay' reality special on June 7

  May 17, 2004
  No, it's not the return of the network's pulled Playing It Straight series that many reality viewers have been waiting for, but it's close. FOX has announced that it has partnered with the folks behind last winter's smash hit My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance fake wedding series to create a new practical joke reality special titled Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay.

• A&E orders more 'Airline', second season to premiere this summer

  March 11, 2004
  A&E Network announced yesterday that its hit Airline series is heading back into production for a new season of high-flying half-hour episodes. The series currently airs every Monday at 10:00 and 10:30PM ET/PT.

• FOX to repeat last two 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance' episodes on February 26

  February 24, 2004
  The big fat following of FOX's My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance can revisit the saga of Randi and Steve, from their tense wedding preparations to the climactic wedding ceremony, when the network airs encore broadcasts of last two episodes of the unscripted relationship series back-to-back on Thursday, February 26 (8-9 PM and 9-10 PM ET/PT).

• A&E and Southwest in talks for a second 'Airline' season

  January 28, 2004
  Cable TV's A&E Network has announced that it is in talks with Southwest Airlines to shoot another season of Airline, the wacky new reality series that documents the customer service adventures that the airline's employees face daily.

• FOX to repeat 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé' Thursdays at 9 PM ET

  January 20, 2004
  FOX has announced that following its successful series premiere Monday night, encore episodes of the network's new hit series My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé will air Thursdays at 9 ET/PT, beginning this Thursday, January 22.

• A&E's 'Airline' reality show begins taking off on January 5

  January 1, 2004
  A&E Network has announced that starting on Monday, January 5, 2004, it will be going behind the counter, into the cockpit and beyond the airport tarmac with the premiere of its new real life series Airline. Broadcast via back-to-back 30 minute episodes that will air at 10:00 PM ET/PT and 10:30 PM ET/PT every Monday evening, the initial season of the series will run eighteen episodes in length.

• FOX's new 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé' series to premiere January 19

  December 29, 2003
  We'll say one thing for the Rocket Science Labs production company folks -- they certainly are persistent. Fresh on the heels of this fall's Rocket Science-produced The Next Joe Millionaire bomb, as well as Spring 2003's abysmal Married By America, Rocket Science Laboratories and FOX have announced My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé, their latest unscripted series concept which will premiere on FOX on Monday, January 19, 2004 at 9-10 PM ET.

• FOX announces full 'Joe Millionaire 2' airing schedule, including twice weekly episodes leading up to finale

  September 4, 2003
  As public speculation runs rampant about the premise of the second season of "Joe Millionaire," FOX has announced some additional details about the program's broadcast schedule, and to no one's surprise, it appears the network is planning to milk the hit series for all it can. Hopefully things will work out better for the network the last time they tried this with the sequel to the (at the time) smash hit "Temptation Island" series -- which subsequently bombed during it's significantly extended twelve episode run.

• FOX reveals identities and profiles of 'Temptation Island 3's 28 single tempters

  August 14, 2003
  FOX has announced the names and basic biography information of the 28 singles who be looking to tempt the show's previous announced four "commited couples" into breaking up.

• A & E Network to air new Southwest Airlines 'Airline' unscripted series

  August 6, 2003
  A&E Network and Southwest Airlines have announced that they have partnered together to produce an all-new, real-life adventure series called "Airline" -- a behind the scenes look at the drama surrounding commercial airline travel.

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