NBC's answer to Joe Millionaire?

[Giraffe]

So last week, while the wife was out taking belly dancing lessons, I was also engaged in personal development, namely laying on the couch watching Fear Factor, special gross-out edition. What a great show. I don't watch it often, but when I do it's always a treat. There's nothing quite like watching a hot Brazilian chick bob for plastic rings in a trough of cow's blood to make you all warm and tingly inside.

Needless to say, I was thus in good spirits when I saw a commercial that piqued my interest like few others have. NBC is apparently hosting a Joe Millionaire-esque trainwreck, in which many women compete for the hand of some doofus, with the twist that the winner gets a million dollars and that everyone but the doofus knows this. Having watched Joe Millionaire all the way through :o, I am of course incredibly eager to see this newest debacle.

However, I can't remember the name of the program or when it's supposed to start. NBC's website has nary a mention of it, and searching the SDMB turned up nothing. Can anyone help me out? Is this a real show, or just a Fear Factor-induced hallucination?

Assuming it is real, isn't this just the greatest idea for a show in the whole wide world? Is anyone else excited about this?

[tracer]

Originally posted by Giraffe
NBC is apparently hosting a Joe Millionaire-esque trainwreck, in which many women compete for the hand of some doofus,
Just his hand? (http://members.tripod.com/~Adam_P_B/starwarshands/)

[twickster]

Dang, I guess I'll have to watch Fear Factor tonight, just in case they run the ad again. (Yes, Giraffe, I experienced a similar hallucination sometime in the last week or so -- alas, I watch so much "reality" TV that I can't pin down what show I was watching at the time.)

[Cartooniverse]

Satirical Faux Quote Yes, coming soon on NBC, the newest hottest most incredibly amazing Real Life Romance Lallapalooza, Just His Hand. Having scoured the four corners of the United States, our network is proud to present the most incredibly base example of human ignorance. We've found a fellow who has NEVER HEARD OF JOE MILLIONAIRE, and therefore is suitable for the task. Yes, he'll wine them. He'll dine them. He'll sneak them out of the Italian Villa for consensual sexual relations in the shrubbery even though he knows they are both wearing body mikes and are being watched with NightScope lenses. Week after week the pathetic drama will unfold to its utterly banal and predictable finale- Our Hero will have to chose between the vacuously calculating powerbitch and the demurely withdrawn Humanitarian. Who will he chose? Who will watch? Who will care who watches? Tune in to NBC in September when Just His Hand has its debut episode airing !!!!!

( Not available in all markets. Prices may vary due to market availability. Unsuitable for minors and adults with a shred of moral compuntion. Your mileage may vary. This program may or may not be coincidentally connected to the soon-to-be-a-MAJOR television event, Now His Forearm, airiing in January of 2004. ) /Satirical Faux Quote

:p

Cartooniverse

[mobo85]

A quick search shows this project does exist, and is called For Love Or Money.

I like this idea, but I hope we don't get so reality'd up we end up seeing shows like those in Comedy Central's humorous "Get Real!" self-promos.

[Giraffe]

Thanks, mobo85. Any idea on when it airs? Also, a Google search using that name turned up nothing for me -- any chance you could post a link?

[InTransit]

E!online mentions the show and says it's supposed to be on this summer. Nothing in the way of details, however.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,11675,00.html

Here's an article that has a little more: http://moviepoopshoot.com/news/apr03/108.html