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Coming: Dating Show for People With 'More to Love'

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 30, 2009 3:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – Fox is producing a “dating show for the rest of us” featuring average-looking and average-size female contestants competing for the love of an ample “Kevin James-type,” the Hollywood Reporter reports. Titled More to Love, it was inspired by the success of Bachelor and The Biggest Loser, which challenged the industry assumption that TV viewers only wanted to watch beautiful people.

“Most of the country isn't a Size 2,” a producer said. “We want to send the message that you can be the size you are and still be lovable.” The show is now in casting, and no air date has been set.

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Contestants on "Cuestion de Peso" (A matter of weight). (AP Photo)

Participants on the TV show "Cuestion de Peso" (A matter of weight) exercise in Buenos Aires. (AP Photo)

U.S. actor Kevin James, left, jokes with candidate Wolfgang Stefan Schaar, right, from Austria, during the German TV show "Wetten dass...?" (Bet it...?) in Munich, Germany, Saturday, March 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein, Pool)

U.S. actor Kevin James performs with an electric self-balancing scooter during the German TV show "Wetten dass...?" (Bet it...?) in Munich, Germany, Saturday, March 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein, Pool)

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It's been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that's not what the dating world looks like. Why don't real women—the women who watch these shows, for the most part—have a chance to find love too? - Mike Darnell, Fox

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