What they tend to do is winnow the field to the final group of contestants.
Another more troubling CBS show called "Survivor" will take a group of contestants to Borneo for a survival course.
Each episode will focus on a group of contestants as they live together and compete in preliminary competitions.
The group of contestants must be attractive, they usually include a gay person and a countervailing homophobe.
Welsh language broadcaster S4C has locked a group of contestants in a house and forced them to learn Welsh in the latest twist on the Big Brother theme.
"The X Factor" is, at this point in the show, supposed to be a competition between the four judges, each of whom is acting as a mentor to a group of contestants.
One of those shows, which ABC is enthusiastic about, is "Jailbreak," in which a group of contestants try to be the first one to break out of a high-technology prison.
"The Mole," a reality show involving a saboteur in a group of contestants, continued to increase its audience, reaching 14percentt of the younger viewers, its best showing to date.
Animal Planet, Oct. 21 at 10. STYLISTA Looking to make a reality show akin to the movie "The Devil Wears Prada," this show takes a group of contestants and puts them to work for Anne Slowey, the fashion news director of Elle magazine.
"Survivor," set to premiere May 31 on CBS, centers on a group of contestants deliberately stranded on a Malaysian island to see what kind of TV would result: who would mate, who would fight.
