Alan "Scooter" Zackheim
| Beauty and the Geek | |
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| Starring |
Brian McFayden Mike Richards |
| Opening theme | Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Lippencott Mark T. Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 48 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Ashton Kutcher Nick Santora Jason Goldberg J.D. Roth Todd A. Nelson John Foy |
| Producer(s) | Heather Carrington Dana C. Arnett Allison Kaz Paul Hogan Danny Kon Steve Youel Matt Assmus Matt Westmore Ian Golding Julie Singer Lisa Michelle Singer Adam Paul Steve Pilot Mike Richards Sean Paulsen Siegfried Hildebrand Jessley Ranek Jamie Sykes Tee-a Hof |
| Cinematography | Darrin Webb Steve Russell Adam Sampson Mark S. Jacobs Tim Baker |
| Editor(s) | D.J. Nurre Colin Dixon Jamie Sykes Stephen Baumhauer J.R. Arinaga Josh Lennox Debra Light Paul Makkos Joe Weiss Scott Zabielski Michael Degl'Innoenti Anne-Marie Hess Marina Catala Kurt Jones Ryan Main William Drucker Scott Bagley Katherine Griffin Mike Barry Pierre Dwyer Karl Kimbrough Teresa O'Mara Paul Sadowski Bradford L. Dean Chris McKnerney Tori Rodman Shawn Chou Greg Berg Dan Golding David Dooyun Kim Robert Marshall Kathy Messer Daniel Paek Joe Shugart Roger Bourdeau Daniel Korb Barry Murphy |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Katalyst Films 3 Ball Productions Fox 21 |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
The WB (2005–2006) The CW (2007–2008) Fox Reality (reruns) |
| Original release | June 1, 2005 – May 13, 2008 |
Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series that is an international franchise, the U.S version is shown on The CW. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora. The show's title is a parody of the titled film (and TV series) Beauty and the Beast.
The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks) and a group of "Geeks" (young men who have relied primarily on intellect rather than social aptitude or looks) who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. (For the fourth season, the producers modified the formula to include an extra team consisting of a male "beauty" and a female "geek". For the fifth season, the beauties and geeks competed against each other at first, and teams of one beauty and one geek were not selected until the end of episode three.) Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session: the team with fewer correct answers gets eliminated.
By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group (and positive lessons about the character of people from that group), positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general.
After the airing of season 5 in 2008, production stopped and the show was cancelled.
The theme song, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" by the Pet Shop Boys (originally released in 1985), is used also on the British, Danish and Belgian-Dutch versions. Commercial promos for the show featured a different theme song, "The Geeks Get the Girls" by American Hi-Fi.
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