• Fox releases details of 'Playing It Straight's unaired conclusion

  July 28, 2004
  Despite having been pulled off the airwaves after only three episodes, last spring's Playing It Straight series has continued to remain of interest among its small (but devoted) group of viewers -- so much so that Fox has apparently grown so tired of viewer questions about the program's ending that it's finally gotten around to posting episode synopses of the remaining unaired episodes at Fox.com

• NBC accelerates 'The Contender' to November debut, matching Fox's copycat show

  July 14, 2004
  If you can't beat them, don't let them beat you. That appears to be NBC's new motto for dealing with the reality-TV copycats at Fox.

• FOX announces identities of 'The Next Great Champ' boxers

  July 10, 2004
  Give Fox credit -- it isn't bashful about trying to steal Mark Burnett's idea.
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  Jackie Kallen joins NBC's 'The Contender' as "den mother" for aspiring boxers

  June 28, 2004
  Well-known boxing manager Jackie Kallen has joined Mark Burnett's production team for the upcoming NBC series The Contender.

• Web magazine "outs" five of 'Playing It Straight's remaining suitors

  March 25, 2004
  Leave it to the Internet to build a better gaydar. Playing It Straight's Jackie might be having problems identitying her show's gay suitors, but armed with tips from a cadre of sharp-eyed gay readers, one online magazine has apparently had no such problems.

• Playing It Straight - Episode 2 summary

  March 24, 2004
  "Jackie Finally Gets One," our episode summary for the second episode of FOX's Playing It Straight, written by Tiger Lily, is now available.

• Jackie finally eliminates a gay guy in 'Playing It Straight's second episode

  March 22, 2004
  Jackie's gaydar may have improved, as she eliminated a gay guy and a straight guy on the second episode of FOX's Playing It Straight -- unlike the previous week's premiere in which the gaydar-challenged Wisconsin coed incorrectly eliminated two straight guys.

• FOX reveals the identities of 'Playing It Straight's male suitors

  March 7, 2004
  FOX has revealed the names and profiles of the fourteen men who will be starring in Playing It Straight, the network's new reality dating series that seeks to test one woman's (and America's) "gaydar."

• 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.

• 'The Simple Life's Paris Hilton to guest star on 'That 70's Show' October 29 season premiere

  July 29, 2003
  FOX has announced that "celebutante" Paris Hilton, one of the two stars of the network's upcoming fish-out-of-water "The Simple Life" reality series, will make her television acting debut when she guest stars on the season premiere episode of "That 70's Show" Tuesday, Oct. 29 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Hilton is scheduled to start production on the hit comedy series July 31.

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