Editing Reality television (section)

==== Dating-based competition ====
Dating-based competition shows follow a contestant choosing one out of a group of suitors. Over the course of either a single episode or an entire season, suitors are eliminated until only the contestant and the final suitor remains. In the early 2000s, this type of reality show dominated the other genres on the major U.S. networks. Examples include ''[[The Bachelor (American TV series)|The Bachelor]]'', its spin-off ''[[The Bachelorette (American TV series)|The Bachelorette]]'', ''[[Temptation Island (TV series)|Temptation Island]]'', ''[[Average Joe (show)|Average Joe]]'', ''[[Flavor of Love]]'' (a dating show featuring rapper [[Flavor Flav]] that led directly and indirectly to over 10 spinoffs), ''[[The Cougar (TV series)|The Cougar]]'' and ''[[Love in the Wild]]''. In ''[[Married by America]]'', contestants were chosen by viewer voting. This is one of the older variants of the format; shows such as ''[[The Dating Game]]'' that date to the 1960s had similar premises (though each episode was self-contained, and not the serial format of more modern shows). One of the more recent hits was ''[[Farmer Wants a Wife]]''.