Trading Spouses

*Trading Spouses*
Trading Spouses
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	59
Production
Executive producers	Chris Cowan; Jean-Michel Michenaud
Running time	44 minutes
Original release
Network	FOX (United States); Slice (Canada) ; Rede Record (Brazil)
Release	July 1, 2004 –; May 3, 2007

Trading Spouses, often advertised as Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, is a FOX 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 the British program 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.^[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 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

[1] "Spouse swap a fit for Fox: Net snipes at Alphabet with Trading Spouses" Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine article from Variety

[2] "Wife Swap sues Trading Spouses" Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine article from post-gazette.com

[3] Twentieth Television Sells Family Focused Reality Series "Trading Spouses" And "Nanny 911" To CMT from TheFutonCritic.com

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