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The Mole 5: The Saboteur's Return; UPDATE
Topic Started: Jan 8 2008, 12:30 PM (897 Views)
Miss Rhi
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The Mole will return to ABC this summer with a “simplified” format

More than five and a half years after a third season was last discussed, ABC is resurrecting The Mole—but without celebrity contestants or either of its first two hosts, Anderson Cooper and Ahmad Rashad. The new series will air this summer and will feature a “simplified” format, according to its producer.

“Casting and pre-production have begun on the show, which will likely start shooting later this spring,” Variety reports. No casting notices have yet been posted on ABC’s site or elsewhere, but the show will be produced by Stone & Co. Entertainment, which is led by one half of the producing pair (Stone Stanley) that produced the earlier versions.

The exact changes that will be made to the format are unclear, but executive producer Scott Stone said, “We simplified it to where the people at home can play along. And the quiz will be much shorter than in the past.” (During its first two seasons, the series was criticized—mostly by critics with small, useless brains—for being complicated and difficult to follow. Considering Survivor’s strategic complexity and popularity, that argument made little sense.)
As to the host, Scott Stone said, “We’re looking for someone in the Anderson mode, a little mysterious but full of comedy. It could be a breakout role for someone.” Or perhaps Anderson could be persuaded to dump his CNN gig and return to the place where he belongs.
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Hell yes, The Mole is an awesome reality show. I was pissed they ever cancelled it.
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OMG YES TO THE MOLE. Best Reality Show ever. I just hope we don't get the celeberty version. The Mole 2 is quite possibly the best reality season ever. I'd love to see them hire Kathy Griffin as Host.
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The only thing I remember about this show from before is Anderson Cooper. What a dreamboat!
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Around Christmas I saw a re-run of the 1st season finale and since then have missed it so much
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darraholic
Jan 8 2008, 12:40 PM
OMG YES TO THE MOLE. Best Reality Show ever.

:rockon:

The Mole was my favorite reality show, and we were just talking about the show in the DR chat last week, saying hoiw much we missed it. YAY!!!!
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King
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel? As if!

I :wub: The Mole!!
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Ally
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OMG LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVED the mole!

i want anderson to host it!

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ABC Ferrets Out a New 'Mole'
Unscripted series returning after prolonged absence

"The Mole" has infiltrated ABC once again.

The network announced Tuesday that it's bringing back one the unscripted series for a summertime run. By the time it airs, it will have been more than four years since the most recent incarnation of the game -- a celebrity version -- aired, and nearly six years since the last non-celeb version.

For those who don't remember, "The Mole" is a game in which players work together on a series of tasks with cash prizes attached. One of them, however, is the Mole, a saboteur working to keep the other players from collecting their rewards. Each episode ends with contestants answering a series of questions about the Mole; whoever scores lowest is eliminated. The last non-Mole standing wins a hefty cash prize.

The show, hosted by a pre-CNN Anderson Cooper, earned decent ratings as a midseason show in early 2001, but a second season was quickly pulled from ABC's fall 2001 schedule. It returned in the summer of 2002 and, against milder competition, finished second in its timeslot among adults 18-34 and adults 18-49. Two seasons of "Celebrity Mole," hosted by Ahmad Rashad, followed in 2003 and 2004, with the latter averaging 8.3 million viewers per week.

"Mole" 3.0 is currently searching for a new host, as well as contestants. Producer Stone & Company also promises new challenges and a beefed-up interactive element for home viewers. Scott A. Stone, who executive produced the show's earlier incarnations, will do the same for the new show.
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darraholic
Jan 8 2008, 12:40 PM
OMG YES TO THE MOLE. Best Reality Show ever. I just hope we don't get the celeberty version. The Mole 2 is quite possibly the best reality season ever. I'd love to see them hire Kathy Griffin as Host.

What?? Kathy Griffin??? Noooooooooooo
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Drew
Jan 8 2008, 10:15 PM
darraholic
Jan 8 2008, 12:40 PM
OMG YES TO THE MOLE.  Best Reality Show ever.  I just hope we don't get the celeberty version.  The Mole 2 is quite possibly the best reality season ever.  I'd love to see them hire Kathy Griffin as Host.

What?? Kathy Griffin??? Noooooooooooo

Oh man I love Kathy. And if they did have her host it would make sense becuase she has won the game before lol.
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KMan101
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Oh yay! Awesome. This is fantastic news. I LOVED The Mole!

I'd love Kathy Griffin as the host. She'd do great!
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She`s hillarious, but she`s completely wrong for the host of The Mole
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SO EXCITED BY THIS NEWS!

I loved The Mole. I was so into it during the first season, not so much the second season, but I think I had a hard semester of classes and couldn't watch as much as I wanted to though.

This is awesome news though! The writers strike has it's good sides, I guess. :lol:
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I'm glad that "The Mole" is coming back, I even have the first season on DVD. The second season I wasn't as into as it aired in Fall 2001 though I did watch the ones with the celebs.
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YAY!!

LOVED THE MOLE!!:sweet:
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And then there were 4 :lol:

Eeeeeek I cannot wait until summer


A very interesting article I found this morning. ABC didn't cancel the Mole afterall, they lost it's license and just now worked out a deal.

According to ABC executive John Saade. “This is a show we honestly love and people ask us about all the time. We were looking to bring the show back even when the writers were working,” he said. The delay, Variety notes, had to do with the rights to the format, which “had reverted back to Belgium company TTTI, which owns the format. Stone, who’s repped by WMA, finally managed to close a new deal to license the show two months ago.” Scott Stone says, “If anyone asks me what my favorite show has been, I’ve answered ‘The Mole.’ … And it perennially ends up on lists of people’s favorite reality shows. That kept the fires burning inside me.”




Filming starts March 1, 2008 and will wrap up around April 18, 2008

The show should air in June
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Very excited about this!
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