| Hosts | |
| Brian McFayden (2005–2006) Mike Richards (2006–2008) | |
| Broadcast | |
 The CW: 1/3/2007 – 5/13/2008 | |
| Packagers | |
| Katalyst Films
3 Ball Productions FOX 21 | |
| Distributor | |
| 20th Century Fox Television | |
Beauty and the Geek is an American reality television series that ran from June 1, 2005 until May 13, 2008. In the United Kingdom, the show aired on Channel 4 as part of the T4 strand, with reruns broadcasting on Channel 4's sister channel E4, Paramount Comedy 2 (now Comedy Central Extra), ITV2, 4Music and more recently, Cartoonito.
The reality game show focused on beauties and their geeks competing in games for $250,000 and other great prizes.
Gameplay[]
The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks) and a group of "Geeks" (young men who have relied primarily on intellect rather than social aptitude or looks) who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. (For the fourth season, the producers modified the formula to include an extra team consisting of a male "beauty" and a female "geek". For the fifth season, the beauties and geeks competed against each other at first, and teams of one beauty and one geek were not selected until the end of episode three.) Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session: the team with fewer correct answers gets eliminated.
By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group (and positive lessons about the character of people from that group), positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general.
International Versions[]
The following are a list of countries that have previously aired their versions of Beauty and the Geek included:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
NOTE: In Brazil, the American version aired on cable television network Multishow under the name As Gostosas e os Geeks (The Hotties and the Geeks).
Trivia[]
The show's title is a parody of Beauty and the Beast.