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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 (2005-06-01) – May 13, 2008 (2008-05-13)

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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