The TV talk of the summer has been how the Fox Network brazenly copied ABC’s upcoming reality show “Wife Swap” (in which wives change families for a few weeks), named the show “Trading Spouses,” and rushed it onto the air this summer, scooping ABC [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Fox stole Wife Swap from ABC? Only after ABC stole it from Channel 4 in the UK:
http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/W/wife_swap/
I’d like to see a reality show about media moguls.
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