Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy is an American reality television series broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox). The series ran for three seasons from July 20, 2004, to May 5, 2007. Each episode of Trading Spouses followed two families, often of different cultural or social backgrounds, who swapped mothers or fathers for a week. Both families were awarded $ 50,000, with the stipulation that the guest mother decides how her host family must spend the money.
15-457: The show shares a very similar format to Wife Swap (and its American 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: Meet Your New Mommy . The producers of Wife Swap , RDF Media , claimed Fox stole their concept. The show completed airing its third season on May 3, 2007. On February 27, 2008, Fox announced that it had sold
30-458: A messy wife swapping with a fastidiously neat one. Despite using a phrase from the swinging lifestyle , couples participating in the show do not share a bed with the "swapped" spouse while "swapping" homes. In November 2009, Channel 4 announced that they had cancelled Wife Swap , and no new episodes of the show would be made for the channel. The final episode was broadcast in December 2009. It
45-618: Is a state-owned provincial satellite TV station launched on September 29, 1970. It is currently China's second-most-watched television channel, second to China Central Television 's CCTV-1 , although Hunan TV has occasionally overtaken CCTV-1 in ratings. Owned by Hunan Broadcasting System , Hunan TV's signal covers most of China, including Macau , Hong Kong , and Taiwan . It is also broadcast overseas as Hunan STV World in Japan, India, Nepal, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, and parts of Africa,
60-410: The "rules change ceremony". During the second week, the new wives are allowed to establish their own rules, and their new families must adhere to these new household rules. It usually takes a while for the families to adjust to this policy, meanwhile the wives disburse a sum of money to the family they have become involved with, to do what the wives see fit to spend it on. At the end of the two weeks,
75-613: The Americas, and Europe. The channel has broadcast in high-definition since September 28, 2009. The appearance of its logo has resulted in the nickname of Mango TV . On December 15, 2006, Hunan TV collaborated with BBC to broadcast “Just the Two of Us”—the first entertainment collaboration between Chinese television and the BBC on a global scale. On May 20, 2009, Hunan TV World launched in Hong Kong. It
90-604: The Netherlands and Belgium Vacation Swap episodes, are produced as "Jouw vakantie, mijn vakantie". At least once a husband and a live-in boyfriend swapped while the women stayed with their families. There is an ongoing series on Hunan Television , in which the people being swapped are mostly the eldest children (or in rare cases, youngest or all children) of between 9–16 years old. One of these comes from an affluent family, but with behavioural and legal issues, in which they must surrender all technological gadgets and money (except for
105-835: The allowances left by the opposite family, or any money they earned or collected). The other is from a poorer agricultural village, often orphaned or with single parents. This show also has celebrity mentors making videos of support for the participants. In the Netherlands the same format is being used in KRO 's Puberruil , broadcast on NPO3. The children are 15–18 years old. Most of the time Dutch children are swapped, but there are also episodes named "Puberruil buitenland" where Dutch children are swapped with children in countries like India, Brazil and Sierra Leone. Longer episodes are called "Puberruil Xtra". Hunan Television Hunan Television or Hunan TV ( simplified Chinese : 湖南卫视 ; traditional Chinese : 湖南衞視 ; pinyin : Húnán Wèishì )
120-533: The episode, Perrin became increasingly angry with the beliefs of the D'Amico-Flisher family due to viewing their beliefs as Satanic . Upon returning home, Perrin had an angry outburst due to her discomfort felt during her experience. The episode went viral and Perrin earned the nickname the "God Warrior" due to her calling herself this during her outburst. Due to her fame from her outburst, she made guest appearances on The Jay Leno Show and The Tyra Banks Show . During her appearance on The Jay Leno Show , Perrin
135-617: The key 'characters.'" On December 15, 2004, Fox and Rocket Science Laboratories were sued by RDF Media over allegations that Trading Spouses copied Wife Swap . In November 2005, a two-part episode entitled D'Amico-Flisher/Perrin aired. In the episode, a Christian woman from Louisiana named Marguerite Perrin was staying with the New Age D'Amico-Flisher family in Massachusetts while hypnotherapist and radio talk-show host, Jeanne Marie D'Amico stayed with Perrin's family. Throughout
150-529: The rights to Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy to CMT , effectively ending the series. In 2005, Trading Spouses was one of several television programs cited in a class-action lawsuit filed by the Writers Guild of America concerning labor law violations. Brian Lowry of Variety criticized the series, stating, " Trading Spouses is as cynical as its name — designed to stoke conflict and elicit well-orchestrated feelings of contempt or bemusement toward
165-433: The two couples all meet together for the first time, and the wives, along with their husbands, discuss how they felt about the two weeks. This often descends into personal insults and has degenerated into violence at least twice. More often than not, however, both families reach toward a middle ground and express that they have learned from the experience. Sometimes, the table meeting is a very heartfelt and emotional time for
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#1732855551561180-526: The two families who sometimes have complete and mutual respect for each other. A few weeks later, the cameras return to record what changes have occurred since the wife swap. A spin-off, Boss Swap , was broadcast as a series in the UK. A pilot for a US series was shown on ABC but was not commissioned. Husband Swap and Vacation Swap pilots were also broadcast in America, but were not picked up for series production. In
195-401: Was announced that Wife Swap would return for a special Brexit episode to air on 15 June 2017 on Channel 4. During the first week, the new wife must adhere to exactly the same rules and lifestyle of the wife she is replacing. Each wife leaves behind a house manual which explains her role in the family and the duties she holds. This almost always determines what rules the wives will apply at
210-481: Was gifted a bobblehead in her likeness. Wife Swap (British TV series) Wife Swap is a British reality television programme that aired on Channel 4 from 7 January 2003 to 15 June 2017. In the programme, two families, usually from different social classes and lifestyles , swap wives/mothers – and sometimes husbands – for two weeks. In fact, the programme will usually deliberately swap wives with dramatically different lifestyles, such as
225-758: Was the first permitted "international channel." Aria Jin served as the host of "Shoot, Brother!" In 2015, because of changes to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television's policies, HSTV changed prime-time broadcasts to show 2 episodes per night instead of 3 and changed the start of air time from 19:30 to 20:00. It is the only channel besides CCTV that airs drama at 22:00. By 2013, HSTV had broadcast to over 1 billion viewers in China, with 358 million showing approval for HSTV programming. There are approximately 210 million daily viewers. Online, HSTV's platform has 730 million views. In 2017,
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