ONTD Original: Top 9 Controversial Shows From the 2000s that Are Now Lost Media
Today we’re going to be taking a look back at several TV shows that you may have heard about, remembered seeing promos for, or even seen that have partially or even completely vanished. These shows were either destroyed or pulled from the air before they could air even a full season or even air a single episode. Here are a variety of shows that you might never see on your TV again (and you know, in the case of some of these shows...maybe that’s a good thing!).
1) Liza and David’s Wedding (2002)
The Mid 2000s on VH1 brought us several couple themed reality shows such as Strange Love and My Fair Brady (both spin offs from The Surreal Life). Of course VH1 was always trying to replicate the success of their sister network MTV with The Osbournes. In October, VH1 gave viewers a front row seat to the star studded wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest, and filmed a half an hour special around it. This is what would lead them down the road towards developing a couple focused reality show centered on the short lived marriage of Liza Minnelli and David Gest. The premise would be that Liza and David would have viewers join them in their weekly dinner parties. The first episode was filmed with featured guests Liz Smith, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Mizrahi, Lynn Watt, Cynthia McFadden and Dominick Dunn.
Unfortunately, things went from festive to frosty when filming officially began, with the show capturing the couple’s arguments both with TV executives and each other. Liza Minnelli would reportedly get physical with Gest after getting inebriated with her security guard, or around the Holidays. The show would also be unable to survive the obstacle that was David Gest, as he was a controlling personality who was impossible to work with, according to sources on the show. Gest would make incredulous demands, like asking the crew not to sit on furniture or touch their new marble floors and denying them access to the apartment to film. He also demanded $50,000 for a Halloween party, spent $16,000 on a hair stylist and would go $15,000 over his style allowance. At the time, Rob Weiss, then head of VH1 Programming lamented that they believed Liza was an “amazing talent, [but] we were not given the cooperation that we were promised.”
The collaboration would result in a lawsuit between all three parties, with Gest suing VH1 after they cancelled the project and VH1 counter-suing for breach of contract. Gest would also name Weiss directly and allege defamation, unjust enrichment and breach of the covenant of good faith and dealing. The suit would be filed on December 16, 2002 and finally be settled on September of 2003, with the show’s 61 hours of footage serving as evidence in Gest’s suit against Liza a month later in October of 2003 (the suit would later be dismissed and Liza would countersue Gest, claiming he stole money). Gest and Minnelli would also counter sue VH1 for the $1.25 Million they were promised in their contracts, plus $22 Million in damages. All parties would eventually settle.
Liza and David unaired workprint pilot from 2002.
Liza and David would never air its sole surviving episode, though the pilot would finally surface online on Youtube in 2006 and then be reuploaded again in 2017. Unfortunately, the original VH1 Wedding Special that spawned the series has never resurfaced online. And likewise, whatever was in the remaining 61 hours of footage that Liza and VH1 don’t want us to see will probably never be released. Liza and David’s marriage would dissolve into an ugly mudslinging mess. Although they legally separated in 2003, they wouldn’t be divorced until 4 years later, resulting in one of the ugliest divorces in Hollywood history and serving as celebrity gossip fodder for the rest of the era. Gest died of a stroke in 2016 at the age of 62, and with an accumulated sum of around £500,000 of gambling debt.
Status: Only one episode was completed of the show, but it’s unlikely that the rest of the 61 hours of recorded footage from the show will ever leak considering the litigation that preceded it and also the parties involved. The Liza and David Wedding special from 2002 remains missing.
2) I Love Money 3 (2009)
I Love Money 3 was set to premiere alongside Megan Wants a Millionaire on VH1’s infamous reality show bloc in the late 2000s. Like Megan Wants a Millionaire, this season was pulled because Ryan Jenkins, who would go on to murder Jasmine Fiore, would be featured as a contestant on the show as well as on Megan Wants a Millionare. Ryan had allegedly placed second in Megan Wants a Millionaire, but it was on I Love Money 3 where he was a finalist and won the cash prize. However, Ryan would be dead before he could even cash a honorarium check. Before he went on the run, Ryan Jenkins had gone to 51 Minds, the production company behind Megan Wants a Millionaire and many of the 2000 era VH1 reality shows, to collect his $250,000 winnings, but they couldn’t as it wouldn’t have cleared in time for the finale’s airing. Ryan took off for Canada, leaving behind the earnings and where he would be found dead weeks later.
How did someone like Jenkins slip through the cracks? According to 51 Minds, the background checks for contestants were arranged by a company called Collective Intelligence, but the issue they ran into with Jenkins was that they only conducted background searches in the US, so they outsourced the vetting to Straightline International. A lawsuit ensued in the wake of the scandal when it came to light that Ryan Jenkins had a domestic battery charge two years prior in Calgary, which would have effectively disqualified him as a candidate had Straightline done a more thorough background search. Collective Intelligence sued Straightline over breach of contract and fraud, alleging that their failure to provide an accurate check on Jenkins hurt their reputation with Viacom and cost them future work with VH1 as well as other networks. In the end, they won their lawsuit.
After Jenkin’s body was found, VH1 would pull all episodes of I Love Money 3, and put Megan Wants a Millionaire on a permanent hiatus after airing three episodes. The unfortunate circumstances brought about the end of a cable reality show dynasty, and the rest is history.
Status: The chances that you will see this one are slim to none, though episodes of Megan Wants a Millionaire have officially leaked onto Youtube through Megan Hauserman’s account.
3) Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000)
Before they hit it big with “The Bachelor”, producer Mike Fleiss would try their hands over at Fox on some truly reckless and sleazy reality television. In a single 2 hour special, Fifty women would compete in a beauty pageant-like setting and when it concluded, marry a complete and total stranger who was supposedly filthy rich. What could go wrong?
Darva and Rick, tying the knot for the cameras. Fox ©
Well for one thing, Rick Rockwell’s background was certainly what one would describe as “filthy”...having criminal charges for battery in 1991. According to Fox, once again, there was a limitation on searching farther back than 7 years. But nothing about him was rich: he had 750,000 in liquid assets, a net worth of 2 Million and was essentially a failed comedian and a motivational speaker (though the program claimed that Rockwell worked in real estate. Today, Rockwell works as a flight instructor). After the show wrapped up, the honeymoon was also lackluster: The couple would sleep in separate beds and they would never consummate the marriage. For Darva Conger, who would go on to be the show’s finalist, the deception as well as the absolute lack of chemistry (at the time, Darva was already in a committed relationship and just did the show for fun) was enough to request an annulment, which was granted to her in Las Vegas in April of 2000.
Up top: Darva Conger holding back vomit from being kissed by this gargoyle, On bottom: Darva and Rick have a tense interview on Larry King Live.
Unfortunately for Darva Conger, she didn’t emerge from this scandal unscathed. We have to remember that this all occurred in the 2000s, which was an unforgiving time for women in general. So even though Darva admitted that she made a mistake by appearing on the show, and even though Fox was responsible for failing to do a proper background check, the public vilified her. And when she posed for Playboy for $500,000, it only made the public turn against her even more. Darva also received criticism for claiming to have been a veteran of the Gulf War, when she was actually stationed in Illinois’s Scott Air Force Base. She did several interview circuits in the wake of the show’s aftermath. Most notably, she came under fire from human prolapsed anus Matt Lauer, who got into a nasty argument with Jeff Zucker when she was booked for three interviews. Not one to let an opportunity go to waste, he openly mocked Conger when she was interviewed by him at the Today Show. When Darva mentioned that the next time she would appear was when she had done something amazing, Matt quipped “Well it’s been very nice to know you then…” before banning her from ever appearing again.
Darva’s last interview appearance was with Larry King Live, where she publicly apologized to Rick Rockwell for criticizing him and for accepting the chance to appear on the show without considering the consequences. Fox, in the wake of the controversy, had a slight moment of realization that their programming was garbage, and fired the president of their reality television division and cancelled a lineup of equally trashy shows: World’s Biggest Bitches, Busted on the Job 5 and Plastic Surgery Nightmares. Of course, that awareness lasted 5 minutes before they returned to their regular slimy form, as you’ll see later on in this list...
Status: Fox had plans to re-air the special when they saw what a big ratings boost it was, but decided against it in the wake of the controversy. A promotional TV spot has resurfaced but unfortunately, no VHS recording has been shared...yet. Until a Fox executive decides to pull this one out of the archives or someone lucky enough to find a recording at a thrift store or in their personal collection of recordings shares it with the internet, it might be a while before this one resurfaces.
4) Dude Seriously, I’m Gay (2004)
Source: The Advocate,Oct 12, 2004
Fox, back to their regular form and not slowing down for a single minute, decided that what the world needed in the 2000s was not just one gay themed reality show, but two. Only the premise for both would be very...well, just very. Produced by Rocket Science Laboratories, the same people who gave you high quality waste like Joe Millionaire and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Dude Seriously, I’m Gay would follow two straight men who have to convince everyone around them, including friends and family, that they are gay. The contestant who was the most convincing would ultimately win a cash prize. Each week, the men would be judged by a panel of gay men (referred to in promos as “A panel of their queers”). The contestants would also be mentored by a team of mantors (or mentors) which included drag queen Jackie Beats.
UK title card for "Playing it Straight"
Around the same time that Dude, Seriously I’m Gay was set to debut, Fox also had another failed gay themed reality show called “Playing it Straight” that had aired around the same time. Playing it Straight’s premise featured a straight woman being sent to a ranch filled with 12 men and then having to decide which ones were straight and which were gay (If she selected correctly, she would split a cash prize with the man, but if she failed, the man would win the full cash prize). It aired for 3 episodes before being pulled due to poor ratings, but would go on to be adapted for other markets overseas, such as the UK, The Netherlands, and Australia. But it may have been the failure of Playing it Straight that helped factor into Fox’s decision that Dude, Seriously I’m Gay couldn’t be saved.
Not surprisingly, the premise of Dude, Seriously I’m Gay also really ticked off GLAAD. GLAAD Media Director Stephen Marcias detailed segments from promotional materials that they were sent by Fox, which included contestants claiming they were “trapped in gay hell”. In one challenge, a contestant told a former wrestling teammate that they participated in the sport to get in contact with “sweaty boys”. The same contestant would then go on a blind date with a stranger, fork feed him dinner and then get him to spank him before asking for a second date.
GLAAD condemned the show as an “exercise in systematic humiliation” and arranged a meeting with Fox Entertainment President Gail Berman to voice their displeasure with the marketing of the show as well as the premise. The meeting would never take place, as on May 26, the show was pulled from their schedule the following weeks and would never air a single episode, a move that GLAAD would consider a great victory. GLAAD would receive some criticism from the gay men who were involved in the show’s production and defended the show’s intentions, including Executive Producer Ray Giuliani, who exclaimed “I am gay; I have a boyfriend; I live in West Hollywood...The idea that I would do something I would consider homophobic is crazy.”
Dude, Seriously I’m Gay would become one of several shows cited in a lawsuit brought upon by the Writers Guild of America on August 30, 2005. The suit was a class effort by the Guild to help bring about the collective bargaining power amongst television Writers, Producers and editors in the industry. Employees who had worked on shows under Rocket Science Laboratories were quoted in the lawsuit as working in excess of over 40 hours without overtime pay and being forced to falsify their time cards. The case would finally be settled for 2.75 Million dollars in January of 2009.
Status: No episodes ever aired of this, so the chances of episodes existing via VHS recording are slim to none.
5) Coupling - (2003)
When NBC saw that Friends was ending, they decided to keep the gravy train going (because who doesn’t like money?) by swimming across the pond to adapt this popular British TV sitcom that ran from 2000 to 2004 in the UK. Unfortunately for NBC, the US version of Coupling became an exercise on how not to adapt a TV show for a foreign market.
Coupling was about six friends, their dating lives and their sexual misadventures...sort of like a British Friends but far more raunchy and free spirited. Original creator Steven Moffat was enlisted by NBC to adapt it for a US market, and they would use the original screenplays from the British show...although quite a few mishaps would happen along the way.
Networks adapting British shows for American palates isn’t anything new. It’s happened before and well after (NBC had been tinkering and succeeding with game show adaptations such as The Weakest Link by this point, and would succeed again 2 years later with The Office), but Coupling was one show that got lost in translation. The show’s content was considered too strong for an American audience (remember, this was meant for primetime television in the US) and in some parts of the country, NBC affiliated stations are often run by religious organizations, so the content scared the censors. According to creator Steven Moffat, the show’s liberal attitudes towards sex and drinking would cause NBC Executives to micromanage and interve in the production process, going as far as to fire 3 of the show’s writers. The original unaired pilot of the show also had an alternate cast. NBC would replace actors Melissa George, Brecken Meyer and Emily Rutherferd with Christopher Moniyhan, Rena Sofer and Sonya Wager. Melissa, who starred as Susan, went on the record to say she had “dodged a bullet”. This pilot has never resurfaced.
The key differences between the US and UK version, even though the original scripts were used, is that content was cut out or shifted about to account for commercial breaks (when the show aired on BBC Two, it was without commercials) and the raunchier content was watered down to appease the more puritanical. None of this would be enough. When the show debuted, the delicate American audience was shocked by frank discussions of sex outside of marriage. The show was outright pulled off the air in more conservative markets such as Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV (which is controlled by the LDS Church) and WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana (which is run by the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic University). Throughout the rest of the US, the show was shifted out of prime time, into Late night purgatory, where it would be deemed more fitting to be viewed and consumed by late night degenerates.
BBC America gleefully aired the original show at the same time, inviting viewers to see what they were missing out on, which was a vastly superior show. Unfortunately for the US version of Coupling, it only lasted 4 episodes before being pulled off the air. NBC originally planned for 13, but only 10 episodes were filmed. The 6 remaining episodes never aired in the US, which was probably a relief to then NBC President Jeff Zucker who said the show “sucked” (though maybe he felt this way because the show didn’t have someone eating bull testicles…).
Status: Only 4 episodes aired of Coupling within the US, but the existing recordings today are from overseas broadcasts in France through Canal+. The good news is that you can find the first episode of Coupling on Youtube. Unfortunately, the unaired pilot with the alternate cast has never leaked, and probably never will. As Coupling has never had a formal release, the only way to see the show is through not so legal means...Unless a channel wants to revive the show as a part of a “Brilliant but Cancelled” programming block (although there’s nothing really brilliant about a bad knock off).
6) Viva Laughlin (2007)
We deep dive, once again, into another British adaptation. But this time, the selection (and payoff) was much riskier.
Viva Laughlin was an American spinoff of a British TV show, this time inspired by the BBC show Blackpool, and would air on CBS in 2007 but to absolute ridicule. It was a musical serial drama set in the town of Laughlin, Nevada, and was about Casino prospector Ripley Holden who struggles to find financing for his casino. He turns to rival Nicky Fontana (played by Hugh Jackman, who was also the Executive Producer) who only offers to help him if he sells him the Casino, so he rebuffs his offer. He then becomes a murder suspect when his former business partner winds up dead. The plotlines would be dizzyingly interjected with song and dance numbers that were reminiscent of a jukebox musical. Amongst the songs performed in the pilot were “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley, “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, “One Way or Another” by Blondie and “Let It Ride” by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
CBS picked up Viva Laughlin along with The Big Bang Theory and 3 other dramas during Upfront Week in March of 2007 (the other shows were Cane, Swingtown, and Moonlight). CBS bet big on the show, as previews for Viva Laughlin aired in between commercial breaks for the broadcasting of the 61st Annual Tony Awards on June 10, 2007. On October 18, 2007, CBS would air a pilot preview following an episode of CSI. The show premiered on October 21, 2007 and was slated for the Sunday Primetime lineup at 8:00pm, with 60 Minutes as a lead-in. Unfortunately, it would not be enough of a ratings boost, because Viva Laughlin would be cancelled the following day on October 22, 2007. After it’s cancellation, CBS would replace Laughlin with The Amazing Race, which is still airing to this day.
While on the surface it seems a bit puzzling why CBS decided this was a show worth gambling on, as it had mixed critical reception in the UK as well, one could see how viewing numbers and award acclaim that Blackpool received in its homeland convinced CBS that Viva Laughlin was worth betting on. In addition to the star power of Hugh Jackman, who was hot off the X-Men franchise, Blackpool averaged 5 Million viewers per episode in its native country. It was nominated for Best Serial Drama from the British Academy Television Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Television Film under its American title, Viva Blackpool. Blackpool would then go on to win an award for Best Miniseries in Canada’s Banff Festival. Unfortunately for Viva Laughlin, the US version wouldn’t escape a better fate, only having aired 2 episodes before CBS decided to put it out of its singing misery.
Of course, many may remember this show for different reasons, particularly the infamous clip that became a running gag on The Soup. Viva Laughlin would unfortunately suffer the same fate with Nine Network in Australia and other foreign networks that bought the rights to air it, only airing once or twice before promptly being cancelled. The show has never aired in its entirety anywhere and outside of the second episode, the majority of the show remains largely unseen.
Status: Only 2 episodes aired, one of which is available online. Unfortunately the rest of the show has never resurfaced.
7) Dude, This Sucks (2000)
Okay, this one is going to get pretty gross. Back in the year 2000, during MTV’s Snowed In weekend, a pilot was filmed at California’s Snow Summit Ski Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains (east of Los Angeles) for a talent show called Dude, This Sucks. The objective of the show was that a team of two would act out a bizarre talent for 45 seconds and if the judges approved, they would award them points...but if they didn’t, they would pound a gavel on a podium and the audience would yell “Dude, This Sucks”.
During a taped segment, a pair of 14 year old girls were led to a stage where they noticed tarps were laid out to protect the stage around them. It was then that a troupe known as the Shower Rangers took to the stage in scouting uniforms to act out a campfire scene. In a horrifying moment, one of the Shower Rangers opened a back flap of his uniform, which exposed his bare ass, and sprayed both girls with feces. Disgusting.
Well, as you can imagine, the family of the victims countersued for battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Then acting MTV President of Programming Brian Graden spoke on the record that, “It was unintended and we regret that it happened”. He emphasized that the footage would never leak, a promise that he followed through on, as it never did. The incident was covered on The Daily Show at the time (and you can view the clip here).
A more detailed description of the various opening acts that also compromised the pilot of Dude, This Sucks exists online. In addition to the Shower Rangers, the other acts that made an appearance included Bikini Houdini and Spring Breakers. The review concludes with the show relying more on scantily clad women than actual talent (shocker). However, it is unknown whether this pilot still exists.
Status: This one was probably either destroyed or placed deep into the MTV vaults to never see the light of day, and thank goodness for that.
8) Bridge and Tunnel (2009)
Before Jersey Shore, MTV had another Jersey Shore style show called Bridge and Tunnel, about the lives of Italian Americans in Staten Island. Unfortunately, the subjects of Bridge and Tunnel would never see the success and fame that the Jersey Shore cast did, having their situation permanently “situated” in TV purgatory limbo.
The origins of Bridge and Tunnel begin with a VH1 reality show called Tool Academy, a show where women tricked their garbage boyfriends into a reform program where they were transformed from self absorbed cads into refined gentlemen. In 2008, Brianna DeBarloti had applied to be a contestant, and while she was never cast (due to the show filling its quota of eligible applicants), something about her caught the eye of the show’s casting director, which led to her meeting SallyAnn Salsano, who runs 495 Productions and is currently the Executive Producer of The Real. She would go on to be the creator of popular MTV aughts era shows like A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila and (eventually) Jersey Shore.
Brianna and Gabriella DeBartoli posing for Village Voice, 2011.
12 filmed episodes later, the sisters were excitedly on their way to instant fame. What they couldn’t have foreseen was that 3 months after filming wrapped up in October of 2009, Jersey Shore would debut in December of 2009. This would come into conflict a year later, when the show was set to debut in October of 2010, after Jersey Shore’s second season debut. MTV permanently shelved it, citing it as being too similar to the guido-sensational show.
Unfortunately, MTV locked the DeBarloti Sisters into a five year contract that forbade them from speaking about the project or pursuing other projects or getting other agents. The majority of the material would never be reused, but MTV would make another attempt at creating a Staten Island focused show with a Mafia theme called “Made in Staten Island”. Made in Staten Island would air 3 episodes until it was pulled after being accused of promoting negative stereotypes of Italians, with 1 episode being unaired.
Due to public outcry, petitions were created to have Staten Island’s name removed from the show’s title, which resulted in MTV bringing the show back in 2020 as Families of the Mafia. As of this writing, Families of the Mafia is still on the air and currently in its second season. But unfortunately, Bridge and Tunnel has never resurfaced.
Status: There is always a chance that MTV could release Bridge and Tunnel to make the Jersey Shore loving crowd happy, if they make their voices heard.
9) Welcome to the Neighborhood (2005)
In 2005, ABC decided that what the world needed was a show that could potentially violate the Fair Housing Act. And so, a madcap experiment was conjured up by the twisted minds of executive producers Bill and Eric Kennedy, and Welcome to the Neighborhood was born. 7 Families of various diverse backgrounds (a Hispanic Family, Asian Family, African American Family, Gay Family, Wiccan Family, Athiest Family and Pagan Family) would compete to live in a conservative and white neighborhood in Austin, TX. And then, having said Conservative neighbors be the ones to decide which families get to own a cul-de-sac in Circle C Ranch. Welcome to the Neighborhood had 12 finished episodes and was set to premiere in the summer of 2005 amongst Desperate Housewives episodes, but would never air.
Though there are many prevailing theories as to why the show never debuted, according to Executive Producer Bill Kennedy, ABC’s owner Disney had a strong desire to market “The Chronicles of Narnia” to Christian Conservatives. As they had plans to turn the films in a multi-film franchise, they were concerned that having a show with a gay family winning a house in a conservative neighborhood, and being embraced by said conservatives, would thwart the work they had done to market the film to their target audience. At the time, four religious groups had lifted their boycott of Disney in response to gatherings of gay tourists at their theme parks. Though ABC Spokeman Kevin Brockman denies Kennedy’s theory, in a NY Times article dated from 2007, Richard Land, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention, went on the record to state that had Disney gone through with the show they would have absolutely re-enacted the ban again, remarking that “...it would have been a pretty stupid marketing move.” Paul McCusker, Vice President of Focus on the Family, agreed with Richard’s remarks, and candidly shared “It would have been a huge misstep for Disney to aggressively disenfranchise the very people they wanted to go see ‘Narnia’”. Henry A. Giroux, in an excerpt from his book “The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence”, mused that “Disney using its power to shut down websites or television shows - even those that offer important perspectives on tolerance, prejudice, family and community - demonstrates that the allegedly “gay friendly” company is willing to marginalize anti-oppressive views and appease the Christian Right if it means the dollars keep rolling in.”
Conservatives were not the only dissenting voices that ABC had to worry about. In addition to the Family Research Council contending that the show made conservatives look biased, The Fair Housing Alliance also made their displeasure about the series vocal very early on, arguing that a show that allows bigoted Neighbors to select who gets to live amongst them would foster housing discrimination. President Shanna Smith held discussions with ABC Executives and led a campaign against the show, imploring civil rights groups and housing agencies to vocally speak out against the show. However, Bill Kennedy insists that ABC was adamant the show had a good legal precedent to stand on, as they argued they could give the house away as a prize which would avoid a discrimination lawsuit.
The show would ultimately conclude with Steven Wright and his partner winning the show, a gay couple with an adopted African American son. Steven Wright speaks proudly of having participated in the show, though he lamented that the show never made it to air. GLAAD had, at the time, also voiced concerns about homophobic remarks made by the show’s judges, but then approved the show when it was screened for them, although with reservations.
In the wake of the controversy, many residents of Circle C Ranch expressed outrage over the portrayal of their neighborhood, and were concerned that the show would lower their property values. In an NY Times interview with the three families that participated as judges (The Stewarts, Daniels and Bellamys), Jim Stewart, patriarch of the Stewart Family, remarked that the toughest part of participating in the show wasn’t the judgement they received from parishioners at the local church or the accusations they received of bigotry from fellow neighbors, but having to reject any of the family participants of the show.
Stewart remarked, “Once we got to know them, I can't say there was one family that we wouldn't have wanted here".
Status: The opening for the show has surfaced online but outside of that, there hasn’t been much else and because it’s ABC/Disney property, there will probably be very little interest in re-airing this program. Fox Reality Channel asked for screening rights to the show but ABC declined, stating the show had moral issues.
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1) Liza and David’s Wedding (2002)
The Mid 2000s on VH1 brought us several couple themed reality shows such as Strange Love and My Fair Brady (both spin offs from The Surreal Life). Of course VH1 was always trying to replicate the success of their sister network MTV with The Osbournes. In October, VH1 gave viewers a front row seat to the star studded wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest, and filmed a half an hour special around it. This is what would lead them down the road towards developing a couple focused reality show centered on the short lived marriage of Liza Minnelli and David Gest. The premise would be that Liza and David would have viewers join them in their weekly dinner parties. The first episode was filmed with featured guests Liz Smith, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Mizrahi, Lynn Watt, Cynthia McFadden and Dominick Dunn.
Unfortunately, things went from festive to frosty when filming officially began, with the show capturing the couple’s arguments both with TV executives and each other. Liza Minnelli would reportedly get physical with Gest after getting inebriated with her security guard, or around the Holidays. The show would also be unable to survive the obstacle that was David Gest, as he was a controlling personality who was impossible to work with, according to sources on the show. Gest would make incredulous demands, like asking the crew not to sit on furniture or touch their new marble floors and denying them access to the apartment to film. He also demanded $50,000 for a Halloween party, spent $16,000 on a hair stylist and would go $15,000 over his style allowance. At the time, Rob Weiss, then head of VH1 Programming lamented that they believed Liza was an “amazing talent, [but] we were not given the cooperation that we were promised.”
The collaboration would result in a lawsuit between all three parties, with Gest suing VH1 after they cancelled the project and VH1 counter-suing for breach of contract. Gest would also name Weiss directly and allege defamation, unjust enrichment and breach of the covenant of good faith and dealing. The suit would be filed on December 16, 2002 and finally be settled on September of 2003, with the show’s 61 hours of footage serving as evidence in Gest’s suit against Liza a month later in October of 2003 (the suit would later be dismissed and Liza would countersue Gest, claiming he stole money). Gest and Minnelli would also counter sue VH1 for the $1.25 Million they were promised in their contracts, plus $22 Million in damages. All parties would eventually settle.
Click to viewLiza and David unaired workprint pilot from 2002.
Liza and David would never air its sole surviving episode, though the pilot would finally surface online on Youtube in 2006 and then be reuploaded again in 2017. Unfortunately, the original VH1 Wedding Special that spawned the series has never resurfaced online. And likewise, whatever was in the remaining 61 hours of footage that Liza and VH1 don’t want us to see will probably never be released. Liza and David’s marriage would dissolve into an ugly mudslinging mess. Although they legally separated in 2003, they wouldn’t be divorced until 4 years later, resulting in one of the ugliest divorces in Hollywood history and serving as celebrity gossip fodder for the rest of the era. Gest died of a stroke in 2016 at the age of 62, and with an accumulated sum of around £500,000 of gambling debt.
Status: Only one episode was completed of the show, but it’s unlikely that the rest of the 61 hours of recorded footage from the show will ever leak considering the litigation that preceded it and also the parties involved. The Liza and David Wedding special from 2002 remains missing.
2) I Love Money 3 (2009)
I Love Money 3 was set to premiere alongside Megan Wants a Millionaire on VH1’s infamous reality show bloc in the late 2000s. Like Megan Wants a Millionaire, this season was pulled because Ryan Jenkins, who would go on to murder Jasmine Fiore, would be featured as a contestant on the show as well as on Megan Wants a Millionare. Ryan had allegedly placed second in Megan Wants a Millionaire, but it was on I Love Money 3 where he was a finalist and won the cash prize. However, Ryan would be dead before he could even cash a honorarium check. Before he went on the run, Ryan Jenkins had gone to 51 Minds, the production company behind Megan Wants a Millionaire and many of the 2000 era VH1 reality shows, to collect his $250,000 winnings, but they couldn’t as it wouldn’t have cleared in time for the finale’s airing. Ryan took off for Canada, leaving behind the earnings and where he would be found dead weeks later.
How did someone like Jenkins slip through the cracks? According to 51 Minds, the background checks for contestants were arranged by a company called Collective Intelligence, but the issue they ran into with Jenkins was that they only conducted background searches in the US, so they outsourced the vetting to Straightline International. A lawsuit ensued in the wake of the scandal when it came to light that Ryan Jenkins had a domestic battery charge two years prior in Calgary, which would have effectively disqualified him as a candidate had Straightline done a more thorough background search. Collective Intelligence sued Straightline over breach of contract and fraud, alleging that their failure to provide an accurate check on Jenkins hurt their reputation with Viacom and cost them future work with VH1 as well as other networks. In the end, they won their lawsuit.
After Jenkin’s body was found, VH1 would pull all episodes of I Love Money 3, and put Megan Wants a Millionaire on a permanent hiatus after airing three episodes. The unfortunate circumstances brought about the end of a cable reality show dynasty, and the rest is history.
Status: The chances that you will see this one are slim to none, though episodes of Megan Wants a Millionaire have officially leaked onto Youtube through Megan Hauserman’s account.
3) Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000)
Before they hit it big with “The Bachelor”, producer Mike Fleiss would try their hands over at Fox on some truly reckless and sleazy reality television. In a single 2 hour special, Fifty women would compete in a beauty pageant-like setting and when it concluded, marry a complete and total stranger who was supposedly filthy rich. What could go wrong?
Darva and Rick, tying the knot for the cameras. Fox ©
Well for one thing, Rick Rockwell’s background was certainly what one would describe as “filthy”...having criminal charges for battery in 1991. According to Fox, once again, there was a limitation on searching farther back than 7 years. But nothing about him was rich: he had 750,000 in liquid assets, a net worth of 2 Million and was essentially a failed comedian and a motivational speaker (though the program claimed that Rockwell worked in real estate. Today, Rockwell works as a flight instructor). After the show wrapped up, the honeymoon was also lackluster: The couple would sleep in separate beds and they would never consummate the marriage. For Darva Conger, who would go on to be the show’s finalist, the deception as well as the absolute lack of chemistry (at the time, Darva was already in a committed relationship and just did the show for fun) was enough to request an annulment, which was granted to her in Las Vegas in April of 2000.
Up top: Darva Conger holding back vomit from being kissed by this gargoyle, On bottom: Darva and Rick have a tense interview on Larry King Live.
Unfortunately for Darva Conger, she didn’t emerge from this scandal unscathed. We have to remember that this all occurred in the 2000s, which was an unforgiving time for women in general. So even though Darva admitted that she made a mistake by appearing on the show, and even though Fox was responsible for failing to do a proper background check, the public vilified her. And when she posed for Playboy for $500,000, it only made the public turn against her even more. Darva also received criticism for claiming to have been a veteran of the Gulf War, when she was actually stationed in Illinois’s Scott Air Force Base. She did several interview circuits in the wake of the show’s aftermath. Most notably, she came under fire from human prolapsed anus Matt Lauer, who got into a nasty argument with Jeff Zucker when she was booked for three interviews. Not one to let an opportunity go to waste, he openly mocked Conger when she was interviewed by him at the Today Show. When Darva mentioned that the next time she would appear was when she had done something amazing, Matt quipped “Well it’s been very nice to know you then…” before banning her from ever appearing again.
Darva’s last interview appearance was with Larry King Live, where she publicly apologized to Rick Rockwell for criticizing him and for accepting the chance to appear on the show without considering the consequences. Fox, in the wake of the controversy, had a slight moment of realization that their programming was garbage, and fired the president of their reality television division and cancelled a lineup of equally trashy shows: World’s Biggest Bitches, Busted on the Job 5 and Plastic Surgery Nightmares. Of course, that awareness lasted 5 minutes before they returned to their regular slimy form, as you’ll see later on in this list...
Status: Fox had plans to re-air the special when they saw what a big ratings boost it was, but decided against it in the wake of the controversy. A promotional TV spot has resurfaced but unfortunately, no VHS recording has been shared...yet. Until a Fox executive decides to pull this one out of the archives or someone lucky enough to find a recording at a thrift store or in their personal collection of recordings shares it with the internet, it might be a while before this one resurfaces.
4) Dude Seriously, I’m Gay (2004)
Source: The Advocate,Oct 12, 2004
Fox, back to their regular form and not slowing down for a single minute, decided that what the world needed in the 2000s was not just one gay themed reality show, but two. Only the premise for both would be very...well, just very. Produced by Rocket Science Laboratories, the same people who gave you high quality waste like Joe Millionaire and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Dude Seriously, I’m Gay would follow two straight men who have to convince everyone around them, including friends and family, that they are gay. The contestant who was the most convincing would ultimately win a cash prize. Each week, the men would be judged by a panel of gay men (referred to in promos as “A panel of their queers”). The contestants would also be mentored by a team of mantors (or mentors) which included drag queen Jackie Beats.
UK title card for "Playing it Straight"
Around the same time that Dude, Seriously I’m Gay was set to debut, Fox also had another failed gay themed reality show called “Playing it Straight” that had aired around the same time. Playing it Straight’s premise featured a straight woman being sent to a ranch filled with 12 men and then having to decide which ones were straight and which were gay (If she selected correctly, she would split a cash prize with the man, but if she failed, the man would win the full cash prize). It aired for 3 episodes before being pulled due to poor ratings, but would go on to be adapted for other markets overseas, such as the UK, The Netherlands, and Australia. But it may have been the failure of Playing it Straight that helped factor into Fox’s decision that Dude, Seriously I’m Gay couldn’t be saved.
Not surprisingly, the premise of Dude, Seriously I’m Gay also really ticked off GLAAD. GLAAD Media Director Stephen Marcias detailed segments from promotional materials that they were sent by Fox, which included contestants claiming they were “trapped in gay hell”. In one challenge, a contestant told a former wrestling teammate that they participated in the sport to get in contact with “sweaty boys”. The same contestant would then go on a blind date with a stranger, fork feed him dinner and then get him to spank him before asking for a second date.
GLAAD condemned the show as an “exercise in systematic humiliation” and arranged a meeting with Fox Entertainment President Gail Berman to voice their displeasure with the marketing of the show as well as the premise. The meeting would never take place, as on May 26, the show was pulled from their schedule the following weeks and would never air a single episode, a move that GLAAD would consider a great victory. GLAAD would receive some criticism from the gay men who were involved in the show’s production and defended the show’s intentions, including Executive Producer Ray Giuliani, who exclaimed “I am gay; I have a boyfriend; I live in West Hollywood...The idea that I would do something I would consider homophobic is crazy.”
Dude, Seriously I’m Gay would become one of several shows cited in a lawsuit brought upon by the Writers Guild of America on August 30, 2005. The suit was a class effort by the Guild to help bring about the collective bargaining power amongst television Writers, Producers and editors in the industry. Employees who had worked on shows under Rocket Science Laboratories were quoted in the lawsuit as working in excess of over 40 hours without overtime pay and being forced to falsify their time cards. The case would finally be settled for 2.75 Million dollars in January of 2009.
Status: No episodes ever aired of this, so the chances of episodes existing via VHS recording are slim to none.
5) Coupling - (2003)
When NBC saw that Friends was ending, they decided to keep the gravy train going (because who doesn’t like money?) by swimming across the pond to adapt this popular British TV sitcom that ran from 2000 to 2004 in the UK. Unfortunately for NBC, the US version of Coupling became an exercise on how not to adapt a TV show for a foreign market.
Coupling was about six friends, their dating lives and their sexual misadventures...sort of like a British Friends but far more raunchy and free spirited. Original creator Steven Moffat was enlisted by NBC to adapt it for a US market, and they would use the original screenplays from the British show...although quite a few mishaps would happen along the way.
Networks adapting British shows for American palates isn’t anything new. It’s happened before and well after (NBC had been tinkering and succeeding with game show adaptations such as The Weakest Link by this point, and would succeed again 2 years later with The Office), but Coupling was one show that got lost in translation. The show’s content was considered too strong for an American audience (remember, this was meant for primetime television in the US) and in some parts of the country, NBC affiliated stations are often run by religious organizations, so the content scared the censors. According to creator Steven Moffat, the show’s liberal attitudes towards sex and drinking would cause NBC Executives to micromanage and interve in the production process, going as far as to fire 3 of the show’s writers. The original unaired pilot of the show also had an alternate cast. NBC would replace actors Melissa George, Brecken Meyer and Emily Rutherferd with Christopher Moniyhan, Rena Sofer and Sonya Wager. Melissa, who starred as Susan, went on the record to say she had “dodged a bullet”. This pilot has never resurfaced.
The key differences between the US and UK version, even though the original scripts were used, is that content was cut out or shifted about to account for commercial breaks (when the show aired on BBC Two, it was without commercials) and the raunchier content was watered down to appease the more puritanical. None of this would be enough. When the show debuted, the delicate American audience was shocked by frank discussions of sex outside of marriage. The show was outright pulled off the air in more conservative markets such as Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV (which is controlled by the LDS Church) and WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana (which is run by the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic University). Throughout the rest of the US, the show was shifted out of prime time, into Late night purgatory, where it would be deemed more fitting to be viewed and consumed by late night degenerates.
BBC America gleefully aired the original show at the same time, inviting viewers to see what they were missing out on, which was a vastly superior show. Unfortunately for the US version of Coupling, it only lasted 4 episodes before being pulled off the air. NBC originally planned for 13, but only 10 episodes were filmed. The 6 remaining episodes never aired in the US, which was probably a relief to then NBC President Jeff Zucker who said the show “sucked” (though maybe he felt this way because the show didn’t have someone eating bull testicles…).
Status: Only 4 episodes aired of Coupling within the US, but the existing recordings today are from overseas broadcasts in France through Canal+. The good news is that you can find the first episode of Coupling on Youtube. Unfortunately, the unaired pilot with the alternate cast has never leaked, and probably never will. As Coupling has never had a formal release, the only way to see the show is through not so legal means...Unless a channel wants to revive the show as a part of a “Brilliant but Cancelled” programming block (although there’s nothing really brilliant about a bad knock off).
6) Viva Laughlin (2007)
We deep dive, once again, into another British adaptation. But this time, the selection (and payoff) was much riskier.
Viva Laughlin was an American spinoff of a British TV show, this time inspired by the BBC show Blackpool, and would air on CBS in 2007 but to absolute ridicule. It was a musical serial drama set in the town of Laughlin, Nevada, and was about Casino prospector Ripley Holden who struggles to find financing for his casino. He turns to rival Nicky Fontana (played by Hugh Jackman, who was also the Executive Producer) who only offers to help him if he sells him the Casino, so he rebuffs his offer. He then becomes a murder suspect when his former business partner winds up dead. The plotlines would be dizzyingly interjected with song and dance numbers that were reminiscent of a jukebox musical. Amongst the songs performed in the pilot were “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley, “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, “One Way or Another” by Blondie and “Let It Ride” by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
CBS picked up Viva Laughlin along with The Big Bang Theory and 3 other dramas during Upfront Week in March of 2007 (the other shows were Cane, Swingtown, and Moonlight). CBS bet big on the show, as previews for Viva Laughlin aired in between commercial breaks for the broadcasting of the 61st Annual Tony Awards on June 10, 2007. On October 18, 2007, CBS would air a pilot preview following an episode of CSI. The show premiered on October 21, 2007 and was slated for the Sunday Primetime lineup at 8:00pm, with 60 Minutes as a lead-in. Unfortunately, it would not be enough of a ratings boost, because Viva Laughlin would be cancelled the following day on October 22, 2007. After it’s cancellation, CBS would replace Laughlin with The Amazing Race, which is still airing to this day.
While on the surface it seems a bit puzzling why CBS decided this was a show worth gambling on, as it had mixed critical reception in the UK as well, one could see how viewing numbers and award acclaim that Blackpool received in its homeland convinced CBS that Viva Laughlin was worth betting on. In addition to the star power of Hugh Jackman, who was hot off the X-Men franchise, Blackpool averaged 5 Million viewers per episode in its native country. It was nominated for Best Serial Drama from the British Academy Television Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Television Film under its American title, Viva Blackpool. Blackpool would then go on to win an award for Best Miniseries in Canada’s Banff Festival. Unfortunately for Viva Laughlin, the US version wouldn’t escape a better fate, only having aired 2 episodes before CBS decided to put it out of its singing misery.
Of course, many may remember this show for different reasons, particularly the infamous clip that became a running gag on The Soup. Viva Laughlin would unfortunately suffer the same fate with Nine Network in Australia and other foreign networks that bought the rights to air it, only airing once or twice before promptly being cancelled. The show has never aired in its entirety anywhere and outside of the second episode, the majority of the show remains largely unseen.
Status: Only 2 episodes aired, one of which is available online. Unfortunately the rest of the show has never resurfaced.
7) Dude, This Sucks (2000)
Okay, this one is going to get pretty gross. Back in the year 2000, during MTV’s Snowed In weekend, a pilot was filmed at California’s Snow Summit Ski Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains (east of Los Angeles) for a talent show called Dude, This Sucks. The objective of the show was that a team of two would act out a bizarre talent for 45 seconds and if the judges approved, they would award them points...but if they didn’t, they would pound a gavel on a podium and the audience would yell “Dude, This Sucks”.
During a taped segment, a pair of 14 year old girls were led to a stage where they noticed tarps were laid out to protect the stage around them. It was then that a troupe known as the Shower Rangers took to the stage in scouting uniforms to act out a campfire scene. In a horrifying moment, one of the Shower Rangers opened a back flap of his uniform, which exposed his bare ass, and sprayed both girls with feces. Disgusting.
Well, as you can imagine, the family of the victims countersued for battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Then acting MTV President of Programming Brian Graden spoke on the record that, “It was unintended and we regret that it happened”. He emphasized that the footage would never leak, a promise that he followed through on, as it never did. The incident was covered on The Daily Show at the time (and you can view the clip here).
A more detailed description of the various opening acts that also compromised the pilot of Dude, This Sucks exists online. In addition to the Shower Rangers, the other acts that made an appearance included Bikini Houdini and Spring Breakers. The review concludes with the show relying more on scantily clad women than actual talent (shocker). However, it is unknown whether this pilot still exists.
Status: This one was probably either destroyed or placed deep into the MTV vaults to never see the light of day, and thank goodness for that.
8) Bridge and Tunnel (2009)
Before Jersey Shore, MTV had another Jersey Shore style show called Bridge and Tunnel, about the lives of Italian Americans in Staten Island. Unfortunately, the subjects of Bridge and Tunnel would never see the success and fame that the Jersey Shore cast did, having their situation permanently “situated” in TV purgatory limbo.
The origins of Bridge and Tunnel begin with a VH1 reality show called Tool Academy, a show where women tricked their garbage boyfriends into a reform program where they were transformed from self absorbed cads into refined gentlemen. In 2008, Brianna DeBarloti had applied to be a contestant, and while she was never cast (due to the show filling its quota of eligible applicants), something about her caught the eye of the show’s casting director, which led to her meeting SallyAnn Salsano, who runs 495 Productions and is currently the Executive Producer of The Real. She would go on to be the creator of popular MTV aughts era shows like A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila and (eventually) Jersey Shore.
Brianna and Gabriella DeBartoli posing for Village Voice, 2011.
12 filmed episodes later, the sisters were excitedly on their way to instant fame. What they couldn’t have foreseen was that 3 months after filming wrapped up in October of 2009, Jersey Shore would debut in December of 2009. This would come into conflict a year later, when the show was set to debut in October of 2010, after Jersey Shore’s second season debut. MTV permanently shelved it, citing it as being too similar to the guido-sensational show.
Unfortunately, MTV locked the DeBarloti Sisters into a five year contract that forbade them from speaking about the project or pursuing other projects or getting other agents. The majority of the material would never be reused, but MTV would make another attempt at creating a Staten Island focused show with a Mafia theme called “Made in Staten Island”. Made in Staten Island would air 3 episodes until it was pulled after being accused of promoting negative stereotypes of Italians, with 1 episode being unaired.
Due to public outcry, petitions were created to have Staten Island’s name removed from the show’s title, which resulted in MTV bringing the show back in 2020 as Families of the Mafia. As of this writing, Families of the Mafia is still on the air and currently in its second season. But unfortunately, Bridge and Tunnel has never resurfaced.
Status: There is always a chance that MTV could release Bridge and Tunnel to make the Jersey Shore loving crowd happy, if they make their voices heard.
9) Welcome to the Neighborhood (2005)
In 2005, ABC decided that what the world needed was a show that could potentially violate the Fair Housing Act. And so, a madcap experiment was conjured up by the twisted minds of executive producers Bill and Eric Kennedy, and Welcome to the Neighborhood was born. 7 Families of various diverse backgrounds (a Hispanic Family, Asian Family, African American Family, Gay Family, Wiccan Family, Athiest Family and Pagan Family) would compete to live in a conservative and white neighborhood in Austin, TX. And then, having said Conservative neighbors be the ones to decide which families get to own a cul-de-sac in Circle C Ranch. Welcome to the Neighborhood had 12 finished episodes and was set to premiere in the summer of 2005 amongst Desperate Housewives episodes, but would never air.
Though there are many prevailing theories as to why the show never debuted, according to Executive Producer Bill Kennedy, ABC’s owner Disney had a strong desire to market “The Chronicles of Narnia” to Christian Conservatives. As they had plans to turn the films in a multi-film franchise, they were concerned that having a show with a gay family winning a house in a conservative neighborhood, and being embraced by said conservatives, would thwart the work they had done to market the film to their target audience. At the time, four religious groups had lifted their boycott of Disney in response to gatherings of gay tourists at their theme parks. Though ABC Spokeman Kevin Brockman denies Kennedy’s theory, in a NY Times article dated from 2007, Richard Land, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention, went on the record to state that had Disney gone through with the show they would have absolutely re-enacted the ban again, remarking that “...it would have been a pretty stupid marketing move.” Paul McCusker, Vice President of Focus on the Family, agreed with Richard’s remarks, and candidly shared “It would have been a huge misstep for Disney to aggressively disenfranchise the very people they wanted to go see ‘Narnia’”. Henry A. Giroux, in an excerpt from his book “The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence”, mused that “Disney using its power to shut down websites or television shows - even those that offer important perspectives on tolerance, prejudice, family and community - demonstrates that the allegedly “gay friendly” company is willing to marginalize anti-oppressive views and appease the Christian Right if it means the dollars keep rolling in.”
Conservatives were not the only dissenting voices that ABC had to worry about. In addition to the Family Research Council contending that the show made conservatives look biased, The Fair Housing Alliance also made their displeasure about the series vocal very early on, arguing that a show that allows bigoted Neighbors to select who gets to live amongst them would foster housing discrimination. President Shanna Smith held discussions with ABC Executives and led a campaign against the show, imploring civil rights groups and housing agencies to vocally speak out against the show. However, Bill Kennedy insists that ABC was adamant the show had a good legal precedent to stand on, as they argued they could give the house away as a prize which would avoid a discrimination lawsuit.
The show would ultimately conclude with Steven Wright and his partner winning the show, a gay couple with an adopted African American son. Steven Wright speaks proudly of having participated in the show, though he lamented that the show never made it to air. GLAAD had, at the time, also voiced concerns about homophobic remarks made by the show’s judges, but then approved the show when it was screened for them, although with reservations.
In the wake of the controversy, many residents of Circle C Ranch expressed outrage over the portrayal of their neighborhood, and were concerned that the show would lower their property values. In an NY Times interview with the three families that participated as judges (The Stewarts, Daniels and Bellamys), Jim Stewart, patriarch of the Stewart Family, remarked that the toughest part of participating in the show wasn’t the judgement they received from parishioners at the local church or the accusations they received of bigotry from fellow neighbors, but having to reject any of the family participants of the show.
Stewart remarked, “Once we got to know them, I can't say there was one family that we wouldn't have wanted here".
Status: The opening for the show has surfaced online but outside of that, there hasn’t been much else and because it’s ABC/Disney property, there will probably be very little interest in re-airing this program. Fox Reality Channel asked for screening rights to the show but ABC declined, stating the show had moral issues.
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