Beyond Belief: Returning in 2009?!

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After 5 minutes of trying to google for confirmation, I keep finding the same few posts that started me off.
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I have just read that the FOX Television show “Beyond Belief: Fact of Fiction” has been picked up for 8 episodes for 2009. **

Can someone with better Google-fu confirm this for me, with links?

Beyond Belief was a show that ran from 1997 to 2002. Jonathan Frakes hosted the show, and Don LaFontaine was the announcer. Each 60 minute episode brought 5 seperate, live action stories. Some of them were based on actual, real life events, some were not. The entire aim of the show was to have the at home audience guess which stories were real, based on actual events, and which stories were fabricated. Toss in first hand interviews by Robert Tralins, and a sprinkle of GREAT puns, and you have a blockbuster show that ran on FOX for years.

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My mother will be thrilled about this. She loved that show. I just thought it was corny as hell and Frakes’s smarmy persona didn’t help.

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Same for mine, this is why I am asking the SD.

I found one post that had no backing to it what so ever, but I can’t find it elsewhere.

FWIW: The post said that FOX has announced that Frakes will be back for 8 Episodes.

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Hmmm…the Wikipedia article that appears to be the source of the rumor has been edited to remove the rumor, and the Discussion page for the article about the show is pretty adamant about whoever added the rumor not repeating it until they have a source.

I’m voting “no”…it looks like the Wikipedia edit was the sole source of what little I’m finding on Google, and the watchdogs at Wiki are saying that the rumor needs to be cited before it can be returned to the main article.

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Nooo! This show is a big nostalgia trip for me. I hope it’s true.

And…smarmy? You’ll be courtmartialed for that one, son.

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Cool deal – my wife and I loved making a game out of trying to pick out the fakes.

I just hope they do a little more in-depth research this time around – I got burned more than once on things they called true that were anything but.

Cases in point.

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As I recall they did zero research. “Fiction” was any story their writers made up. “Fact” was any story their writers didn’t make up.

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There were some episodes that credited Robert Tralins. I am not saying he is gospel, [I’m not saying he isn’t either] but at least there is a name to the “Fact” stories.