Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on The CW. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora. The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks and are intellectually inept) and a group of "Geeks" who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select a total of two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session, with the team getting the fewest number of questions correct being eliminated.By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group, positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general.

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  • Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on The CW. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora. The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks and are intellectually inept) and a group of "Geeks" who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select a total of two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session, with the team getting the fewest number of questions correct being eliminated.By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group, positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general. The theme song, "Opportunities " by the Pet Shop Boys, is used also on the British and Belgian-Dutch versions. Commercial promos for the show featured a different theme song, "The Geeks Get the Girls" by American Hi-Fi. Following the second season, the American version moved to The CW Television Network, the new network formed when both The WB and UPN ceased operations in September 2006. The two-hour season premiere for the third season aired Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. EST on The CW. The fourth season premiered on September 18, making BATG the first series to premiere for the CW for the 2007-08 television season. Beauty and the Geek was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on March 12, 2008. The fifth season will be the final one until enough time has passed to make the format seem fresh again or if producers come up with a new twist to the format. (en)
  • Beauty and the Geek är en amerikansk tv-serie där attraktiva tjejer får möta mindre attraktiva killar. Under programmet ska nördarna i serien försöka lära tjejerna om några ämnen som t.ex Kemi. Tjejerna ska också dem lära ut något. De ska göra så att killarna blir självsäkrare när det gäller att dejta. (sv)
  • Beauty and the Geek ("La bella y el empollón" o "la bella y el nerd"), es un programa de telerrealidad, cuya primera emisión fue en la Warner Bros el 2 de Junio del 2005, con una publicidad que lo anunciaba como "el último experimento social" y producido por Ashton Kutcher y Nick Santora. A fecha de septiembre del 2006 van por la selección de concursantes para la tercera edición en Estados Unidos y la primera emisión en el Reino Unido, también se han hecho algunas versiones en otros países como México y Colombia. El 7 de febrero del 2006, el programa debutó en el canal 4 inglés. Aquí producido por David Mitchell. Extendiéndose a Noruega con el nombre La princesa y el profesor, a Italia con el nombre de La pupa e il secchione, a Estonia llamándose Kaunitar ja geenius, a Portugal con el nombre de A Bela e o Mestre (The Beauty and the Master), Mexico con el nombre de "La Bella y el Nerd" y en Colombia se llamó "La Bella y el Nerdo". (es)
  • La Pupa e il Secchione è la versione italiana del reality show Beauty and the Geek, trasmesso per la prima volta dal canale The WB negli Stati Uniti nel 2005. È stato definito dagli autori come un "Esperimento Sociale"; è prodotto da Ashton Kutcher e Nick Santora. Nel febbraio 2006 ha debuttato in Inghilterra sul canale E4. Format della Fox, acquistato in Italia dalla Endemol Italia, lo show accoppia donne fisicamente molto attraenti, più o meno corrispondenti allo stereotipo di persone che solitamente non curano la propria cultura (ma hanno comunque certi interessi), con dei "secchioni", uomini studiosi, con un titolo di studio qualificato ed interessi prevalentemente intellettuali ma generalmente poco portati per la vita sociale, mettendo alla prova gli uni nei campi più consoni agli altri nel tentativo di spingerli a condividere le proprie conoscenze. Le donne proveranno a studiare materie accademiche o tecniche, come costruire un razzo o riparare una automobile e gli uomini dovranno migliorare le loro capacità sociali e la loro forma fisica. Le coppie sono ospitate in una grande villa che fa da set per lo show. Il motore comico della trasmissione è chiaramente la quasi totale mancanza di sintonia tra i due membri di ogni coppia, causata delle priorità radicalmente diverse che hanno stabilito per la propria vita, che stride con la necessità dei concorrenti di collaborare per raggiungere un risultato comune. I presentatori poi hanno buon gioco a scherzare sui concorrenti attingendo più o meno velatamente ai due stereotipi che danno il nome al programma. Il format americano risulta quindi totalmente stravolto giocando più sullo stereotipo che nell'effettiva mutua crescita delle coppie in gara. La prima stagione americana ha visto sette "pupe" e sette "secchioni". La seconda invece otto coppie. (it)
  • A Bela e o Mestre, reality show a ser transmitido pela TVI em Portugal, junta pela primeira vez José Pedro Vasconcelos e Iva Domingues na apresentação. É um programa que gira em torno da dinâmica de oito casais concorrentes, os quais têm de conquistar o público. O telespectador é que decidirá qual o par que arrecadará um total de 100 mil euros.O formato televisivo junta oito mulheres supostamente lindíssimas e cheias de confiança e outros tantos homens, inteligentes, mas com muito pouco jeito para lidar com o sexo oposto. Eles vão ter que as educar e Elas vão ter que os treinar. O insucesso de um será o insucesso do outro. Para isso vão viver juntos durante 9 semanas numa casa. (pt)
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  • Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on The CW. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora. The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks and are intellectually inept) and a group of "Geeks" who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select a total of two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session, with the team getting the fewest number of questions correct being eliminated.By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group, positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general. (en)
  • Beauty and the Geek är en amerikansk tv-serie där attraktiva tjejer får möta mindre attraktiva killar. Under programmet ska nördarna i serien försöka lära tjejerna om några ämnen som t.ex Kemi. Tjejerna ska också dem lära ut något. De ska göra så att killarna blir självsäkrare när det gäller att dejta. (sv)
  • Beauty and the Geek ("La bella y el empollón" o "la bella y el nerd"), es un programa de telerrealidad, cuya primera emisión fue en la Warner Bros el 2 de Junio del 2005, con una publicidad que lo anunciaba como "el último experimento social" y producido por Ashton Kutcher y Nick Santora. (es)
  • La Pupa e il Secchione è la versione italiana del reality show Beauty and the Geek, trasmesso per la prima volta dal canale The WB negli Stati Uniti nel 2005. (it)
  • A Bela e o Mestre, reality show a ser transmitido pela TVI em Portugal, junta pela primeira vez José Pedro Vasconcelos e Iva Domingues na apresentação. (pt)
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