Cheaters (TV series)

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Cheaters is a reality television show broadcast weekly in the United States . In the show, people are shown and followed by a detective (by the "Cheaters Detective Agency") who cheat ("cheat") their respective life partners. "Cheaters", which will be shown in season 9 in the USA in 2008, will be presented by Joey Greco . In Germany, Cheaters was broadcast on the private television broadcaster RTL II .

Episode structure

The show usually starts with 2 independent people who suspect their partner of cheating . Then the episodes follow the following pattern:

  • A brief description of the suspects and their partners is made.
  • Footage from shadowing the suspects is shown. Later, the partners are shown in clear situations.
  • After the suspects are shown video material as evidence of cheating, the team and bodyguards set off to a location where the suspects are located.
  • Curses are often heard during the confrontation and violent scenes develop.
  • The episode ends with a summary by the moderator. The suspects who do not consent to their identity being used are anonymized.
  • Sometimes stories of participants from past episodes and their consequences are shown.
  • A few episodes show that the suspect did not cheat.
  • Homosexual couples are also featured in cheaters.

history

The format was developed by Bobby Goldstein, a Texan lawyer, and was first broadcast in 2000. From 2004 onwards, repetitions that were cut together every half hour were broadcast on weekdays. Sexual encounters recorded by private hidden cameras are usually heavily alienated visually and linguistically. However, private recordings of the participants also contain uncensored material. The author Bobby Goldstein and Cheaters also run a website under the name “NO Cheaters”.

Since September 2008 the Bulgarian broadcaster Diema has been showing a local version of the format under the name Хванати в изневяра (roughly “in flagranti”). It is produced by Niko Tuparev . However, the authenticity of the Bulgarian show is questionable as photos of actors have emerged who are very similar to the suspects of individual episodes.

Trivia

  • On December 16, 2005, four employees of the show were suspected of being deprived of their liberty for holding a woman against her will. The suspicion was directed against Joey Greco, the director Hunter Carson and two bodyguards. On November 9, 2006, the four suspects were acquitted.
  • Joey Greco was stabbed by a "cheater" during an episode in which they were filming on a boat. During his recovery, Jack E. Jett hosted the show, then Greco himself again.
  • In an episode released on DVD, Greco and his team are attacked by a man with a semi-automatic paintball rifle.
  • During one episode, Greco was arrested and placed under arrest after confronting a man with his cheating fiancée at a bachelorette party.

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