Trading Spouses
Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 59 |
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Executive producers | Chris Cowan Jean-Michel Michenaud |
Running time | 44 minutes |
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Original network | Fox |
Original release | July 1, 2004 May 3, 2007 | –
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Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, or Trading Spouses, is an American reality show in which two families, usually of different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week. Each family is awarded $50,000, with the stipulation that the guest mother decides how her host family must spend the money. The title of the show is a play on the idiom Trading Spaces.
The show shares a very similar format to Wife Swap (and its U.S. remake). In 2004, ABC showcased their upcoming Wife Swap show including projections of its popularity. Weeks before the show's debut, Fox introduced Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy.[1] The producers of Wife Swap, RDF Media, claimed Fox stole their concept,[2] while Fox argued that TV shows have always borrowed from one another and that Fox simply beat ABC to delivery.[citation needed]
The show completed airing its third season on May 3, 2007. On February 27, 2008, Fox announced that it had sold the rights to Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy to CMT, effectively ending the series.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Spouse swap a fit for Fox: Net snipes at Alphabet with Trading Spouses" Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine article from Variety
- ^ "Wife Swap sues Trading Spouses" Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine article from post-gazette.com
- ^ Twentieth Television Sells Family Focused Reality Series "Trading Spouses" And "Nanny 911" To CMT from TheFutonCritic.com
External links[]
- Official website at CMT.com
- Trading Spouses at IMDb
- Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
- American television series based on British television series
- 2000s American reality television series
- 2004 American television series debuts
- 2007 American television series endings
- American dating and relationship reality television series
- CMT (American TV channel) original programming
- English-language television shows