My New Reality Dating Show Idea

Woke up this morning with a cool idea for a 13-episode reality dating show. The cool part is that it's unlike any reality dating show yet to air. To begin with, it starts off with 56 contestants: 7 men and 49 women (or 7 women and 49 men, we can switch back and forth in alternating seasons).

Here's how it works. The men and women are split into teams of eight, one man and seven women per team. In the first of the 13 episodes, a special 2-hour season opener, we get to meet all the contestants and no one gets eliminated.

The idea is that each guy on the show is looking for love and he's presented with 7 potential mates on his team. In even numbered weeks, the man and all the women in his team compete together as a team to avoid the whole team being eliminated. In odd numbered weeks, they work on the romantic part and the man has to eliminate one woman from his team.

As teams and players are eliminated, we whittle down from 56 players (7 men and 49 women) to 3 players (1 man and two women) in the final episode. And on that final episode, the man chooses between the two women to pick the one who has won his heart.

So this is the status of / number of players at the end of each episode:

Week 1: 56 players on 7 teams (1 man & 7 women per team) no elimination
Week 2: 48 players on 6 teams (1 man & 7 women per team)
Week 3: 42 players on 6 teams (1 man & 6 women per team)
Week 4: 35 players on 5 teams (1 man & 6 women per team)
Week 5: 30 players on 5 teams (1 man & 5 women per team)
Week 6: 24 players on 4 teams (1 man & 5 women per team)
Week 7: 20 players on 4 teams (1 man & 4 women per team)
Week 8: 15 players on 3 teams (1 man & 4 women per team)
Week 9: 12 players on 3 teams (1 man & 3 women per team)
Week 10: 8 players on 2 teams (1 man & 3 women per team)
Week 11: 6 players on 2 teams (1 man & 2 women per team)
Week 12: 3 players on 1 team (1 man & 2 women)
Week 13: 2 players on 1 team (1 man & 1 woman)

Of course, since I don't have my own production company, I'll never get this on the air myself. But maybe some production company will read my blog, "borrow" the idea, and then I'll at least get to watch it.

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