There’s another beauty-based reality show getting ready to launch this week, FOXNews.com reported Tuesday.
But this is no “America's Next Top Model” or “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” -- this is a completely uncensored, inside look at Joe Francis’s controversial franchise “Girls Gone Wild.”
GGW is known for trolling beaches, colleges and clubs frequented by young women and videotaping their often-inebriated targets exposing themselves -- in exchange for a cap or a T-shirt.
This new “un-rated” 12-part, half-hour reality series, entitled “Search for the Hottest Girl in America,” will air in the 1 a.m ET/10 p.m. PT slot on Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s HDNet channel. The independent network is generally included automatically in HD packages with leading providers such as Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network and Verizon.
"Parents beware -- 'The Hottest Girl in America' show is yet another sexually exploitative show that entices teenage girls and young women to bare all and behave provocatively in order to be featured on the show and potentially win the show’s title role," said Donna Rice Hughes, president and chairman of Enough is Enough, an organization that seeks to protect children from inappropriate websites and viewing content.
"This show, in the same vein as its equally inappropriate predecessor 'Girls Gone Wild,' gets girls to imitate porn stars, strippers and pole dancers, cheered on by scores of hungry, horny boys."
But Francis argues the reality show is suited to a “mature audience” -- although an edited version will also be made available for a “run on all stations” and will be acceptable for all time periods and all viewers.
The show is not marked as being “adult-themed” on HDNet’s schedule, although the teaser trailer has been deemed “not appropriate for work.”
Francis said thousands of girls submitted videos and pictures in the hope of being “discovered” for the reality series, but only one “lucky” lady (as determined by viewer voting) will become his next hot property.
“In all the focus groups it actually scored higher with women than men. You’re going to be surprised; it’s not what you’d expect. It has every element of our GGW brand in it, the gratuitous nudity all over it and all uncensored, but it’s an incredible look at the company on all levels -- it is a great story line with great characters,” Francis said.
