My Kind of Town

A Short-lived game show that was part variety show and part game show.

Host
Johnny Vaughan

Broadcast
ABC: August 14-September 4, 2005

Gameplay
the series brings 200 people from a small town in the United States to New York City to compete for prizes and participate in games and assorted gags. At the end of the show, one of the 200 who was preselected prior to the show competed in a game called "Name Your Neightbors" where, if the person is successful in identifying the names of six people featured in the program, the entire audience wins a prize.

Trivia
The show's excutive producer is Michael Davies, who is also the producer of the American version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Despite a lead-in of reruns from ABC's popular Extreme Makeover:Home Edition and a lead-out of reruns from the also popular Desperate Housewives, the show's ratings were dismal, witht the premiere episode receiving just a 2.9 ratingamong 18-49 viewers, with about 11.4 million viewers. By the third episode. the show received a 2.1 rating, with about5.1 million viewers. The show received very little in-network advertising.

Only four of the original seven episodes jad aired when ABC cancelled the show.