Boy Meets Boy (TV series)
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Season 1 DVD Cover
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| Genre | Reality television |
| Created by |
Douglas Ross Dean Minerd Tom Campbell |
| Directed by | Becky Smith |
| Presented by | Dani Behr |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Frances Berwick Kathleen French Amy Introcaso-Davis Dean Minerd Douglas Ross Greg Stewart Jayson Dinsmore |
| Producer(s) | Mario Yates |
| Location(s) | Palm Springs, California |
| Cinematography |
Derth Adams Gretchen Warthen |
| Editor(s) |
Kim Desch Sax Eno Nimrod Erez Scott Gamzon Barry Murphy Paul C. Nielsen Tony Reece |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Bravo |
| Original release | July 29 – September 2, 2003 |
Boy Meets Boy is an American reality television show in which a gay man met and chose a mate from a group of 15 potential male suitors. The show featured the twist that the "leading man" did not know that the mix of suitors included both gay and heterosexual men.
The show premiered July 29, 2003, on the Bravo cable television channel. A total of six episodes were aired weekly until the finale on September 2, 2003. The show was taped in Palm Springs, California and hosted by Dani Behr.
The show featured a gay man named James Getzlaff selecting another man to date from among a group of 15 potential suitors, known as "mates". Helping him choose was his best friend Andra Stasko. The "controversial" twist was that some of the housemates were gay, while others were straight. James was not told of this fact until nearly the end of the series' run, and the gay mates were never informed. If James' final choice from among the mates was gay, James and the mate would win a cash prize and a trip for two to New Zealand provided by Alyson Adventures of Key West, Florida, which specializes in gay and lesbian small group tours throughout the world. If James chose a straight mate, James would win nothing and the mate would win $25,000. The producers managed to keep a mixture of gay and straight men in the house despite the eliminations by putting the men into "groups" that prevented the contestant from eliminating all of the gay men or all of the straight men. At the end of each episode, the sexual orientation of each eliminated mate was revealed to viewers.
James and Andra move into their Palm Springs house and meet the mates, who are living together in a separate house. James and Andra spend time with the group at a luau, and James spends some time individually with several of the mates. Later that night, James made his first round of three eliminations. He eliminates Chris (gay), Jason (gay) and Brian A (straight). Twelve mates remain.
In the series finale, the final three mates spend their last night and day together, while Andra and James try to figure out which of them is straight. Andra has a final confrontation with the mates before James makes his final choice. James eliminates Brian (gay) and Franklin (straight). His final choice, Wes Culwell, is gay, so James wins the money and he and Wes win the trip.
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