The Surreal Life
| The Surreal Life | |
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| Created by |
Cris Abrego Mark Cronin Rick Telles |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 61 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Cris Abrego Mark Cronin |
| Running time | approx. 44 min. (2004) |
| Production company(s) | 51 Minds Entertainment, Brass Ring Productions, Go Sick Productions, Mindless Entertainment, Renegade 82 Productions |
| Distributor |
USA: Debmar-Mercury (2006–) Worldwide: Endemol (2008–) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
The WB (2003–2004) VH1 (2004–2006) |
| Picture format | 4:3 480i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | January 9, 2003 – May 14, 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by |
Strange Love My Fair Brady The Surreal Life: Fame Games |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Surreal Life was a reality television series that sets a select group of past-their-prime celebrities and records them as they live together in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks. The format of the show resembles that of The Real World and Road Rules, in that the cameras not only record the castmates' participation in group activities assigned to them, but also their interpersonal relationships and conflicts. The series is also likened to The Challenge in that previously known individuals from separate origins of entertainment are brought together into one cast. The show's first two seasons aired on The WB, and subsequent seasons were shown on VH1.
The original concept of the series was derived from a television commercial aired in 2001. The commercial starred celebrities such as Mary Lou Retton, Mr.T, Lonnie Anderson and George Hamilton living in a house together cooking a family meal and having funny sit-com like conversation.The Surreal Life creators, Cris Abrego, Mark Cronin and Rick Telles, met with their agents (Cris Coelen and Sara Chazen at UTA) who pitched the idea to them as a possible reality show concept and suggested the title “Surreal World” (after "Real World”). The name was later changed to Surreal Life to avoid legal issues with Real World.
The first season of The Surreal Life began airing on January 9, 2003 and starred Gabrielle Carteris, MC Hammer, Corey Feldman, Emmanuel Lewis, Jerri Manthey, Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil, and Brande Roderick. Throughout the two-week production, the cast participated in a Survivor-inspired camping trip, a trip to Las Vegas, and a drama-creating Corey Feldman, who got married to his girlfriend in the season finale. Mindy Cohn was scheduled to be a cast member, but dropped out before taping began.Robin Givens was also offered a slot on the cast, but declined.
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