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Grease: You're the One That I Want!

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  • 2006-2007
  • 1 Season
  • NBC
  • Reality
  • TV-PG
  • Watchlist

A talent competition series where the American public ultimately chooses the male and female lead for the 2007 Broadway production of Grease.

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Denise Van Outen
Self - Host
Billy Bush
Self - Host
Max Crumm
Self - Competitor

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Sun, Jan 7, 2007

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Grease Ad Deemed Hopelessly Devoid of Truth

An ad for Grease, the Broadway revival that was cast via an NBC reality competition, has created discord among media outlets seemingly quoted as endorsing the poorly reviewed musical. "The One That I Want!" the ad says over and over, attributing the sentiment to a variety of publications — many of which gave the show a thumbs down. A Grease rep tells the New York Daily News they extract quotes "from both features and reviews," an explanation that isn't pacifying the cited outlets. The AP, for one, asked for its name to be removed — as all eventually were when the fast-talking ad was dropped from circulation.

Thu, Aug 23, 2007

Casting About: ABC (Private) Eyes O'Mara as Marlowe

• In Justice's Jason O'Mara is in final talks to play Philip Marlowe in ABC's drama pilot.• Something About Amelia reunion alert! Ted Danson has been cast as a corporate titan facing off against Glenn Close's litigator in FX's get-a-title-already legal thriller pilot, says the Hollywood Reporter.• Oscar nominee Alan Arkin will play a prison pal of Damian Lewis' wrongfully imprisoned cop-back-on-the-force in the NBC pilot Life.• Legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is a guest judge on NBC's Grease: You're the One that I Want on Feb. 11.• Lucy Liu and Jerry O'Connell appear on the Feb. 15 episode of Ugly Betty, playing a once-frumpy college classmate of Daniel's and a man Alexis meets in a bar, respectively.• Lisa Donovan (aka YouTube's "Lisa Nova") joins the cast of Mad TV on Feb. 17.• Desperate Housewives' Mark Moses guests on Without a Trace on Feb. 25.

Wed, Jan 31, 2007

Reality Series Greases the Broadway Box Office

Grease: You're the One That I Want has demonstrated that Grease is the hot ticket that you want. In its first two days of advance sales, the Broadway revival, whose leads are being cast by the aformentioned NBC reality series, sold $1.3 million worth of seats — not bad at all for a production with no "names" and not even a theater to call home yet. Kathleen Marshall, the director of Grease and a judge on the NBC show, tells the New York Daily News, "It is unbelievable, just crazy." Meaning, a blast, boss, Fat City, radioactive and unreal!

Thu, Jan 11, 2007

Ratings: Apprentice Can't Trump Previous Premiere

This Sunday's ratings highlights:— The premiere of NBC's Grease: You're the One That I Want averaged 11.59 million total viewers — not enough to beat The Simpsons' football-goosed numbers (13.88 mil) in its first half hour, but good for a third-place finish from 8:30 to 9:30. UPDATE: Per NBC, "In total viewers, this is NBC's top non-sports result in the time period with series programming since February 8, 2004."— Desperate Housewives (18.52 million) clobbered Cold Case (14.1 mil).— At 10, Without a Trace (14.23 million) bested Brothers & Sisters (12.06 mil). — Averaging an audience of 9.1 million over its own hour-and-a-half run, the debut of The Apprentice: Los Angeles fell 660,000 heads shy of the series' previous season opener, though viewership did swell each half hour (reaching a 10:30 pm tally of 9.45 mil).UPDATE: Speaking of The Apprentice, USA Network's Monday Night Raw wrestling will pit Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell against each other (or a...

Tue, Jan 9, 2007

NBC's Grease Contest Raises the Reality-TV Stakes

If you think Broadway and reality TV go together like "rama-lama-lama, ke-ding-a-de-ding-a-dong," NBC's Grease: You're the One That I Want, which debuts Sunday, Jan. 7, at 8 pm/ET, will have you singing and dancing in the bleachers. Produced by the folks behind Dancing with the Stars, the series stages an intense search for two unknowns to front an in-the-works Broadway production of Grease, playing bad boy Danny Zuko and virginal Sandy Dumbrowski (played in the film by Olivia Newton-John, who will be a guest on the first two episodes). A trio of judges — theater producer David Ian, Grease coauthor Jim Jacobs and two-time Tony winner Kathleen M

Fri, Jan 5, 2007
NBC's Grease Contest Raises the Reality-TV Stakes