Trading Spouses

Trading Spouses, often advertised as Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, is a FOX reality show in which two families, usually of different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week. Each family is awarded $50,000, with the stipulation that the guest mother decides how her host family must spend the money. The title of the show is a play on the idiom Trading Spaces.

Trading Spouses
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes59
Production
Executive producer(s)Chris Cowan
Jean-Michel Michenaud
Running time44 minutes
Release
Original networkFOX (United States)
Slice (Canada)
Rede Record (Brazil)
Original releaseJuly 1, 2004 (2004-07-01) –
May 3, 2007 (2007-05-03)
External links
Website

The show shares a very similar format to the British program Wife Swap (and its U.S. 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.[1] The producers of Wife Swap, RDF Media, claimed FOX stole their concept,[2] while FOX argued that TV shows have always borrowed from one another and that FOX simply beat ABC to delivery.

The show completed airing its third season on May 3, 2007. On February 27, 2008, FOX announced that it had sold the rights to Trading Spouses to CMT, effectively ending the series.[3]

References
  1. "Spouse swap a fit for Fox: Net snipes at Alphabet with Trading Spouses" Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine article from Variety
  2. "Wife Swap sues Trading Spouses" Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine article from post-gazette.com
  3. Twentieth Television Sells Family Focused Reality Series "Trading Spouses" And "Nanny 911" To CMT from TheFutonCritic.com
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