Season 4
Beauty and the Geek is an American reality competition television series produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora in which a group of "Beauties" (young women who are intellectually inept) and a group of "Geeks" (young men who are socially inept) are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes.
The series originally aired in the USA on The CW (formerly The WB) from 1 June, 2005 to 13 May, 2008. There are 48 episodes in five seasons. The 5th season was the last.
The first season was hosted by Brian McFayden. He was replaced for Season 2 by Mike Richards, who went on to host all the remaining seasons.
Beauty and the Geek premiered in South Africa on DStv's M-Net Series channel on Friday 24 March 2006, at 21h00. See "Seasons" below for seasonal broadcast dates and times.
Season 4 premiered on M-Net Series on Friday 22 August 2008, at 20h00. There are 13 episodes (including a Recap episode) in the fourth season.
Season 4 Repeats
Saturdays: 02h00, 08h00, 14h00
Season 4 Synopsis
Beauty and the Geek returns with a fourth season where the new contestants are thrown a curveball right from the outset.
The contestants expected business as usual - gorgeous but academically impaired women pairing with brilliant but socially challenged men to test intellect and social skills for a chance to win the $250,000 grand prize.
But in their first days, they learn that they'll have to compete against one pair that's the opposite - a hot guy and a geeky girl - which immediately throws the rest of the house into turmoil.
How will the geeks take to a jock in their midst? Will the beauties try to give a makeover to the geeky girl?
Among the new challenges, the geeks will perform an autobiographical rap in a nightclub and participate in the ultimate social test: the competition for Prom King.
The beauties will delve into today's hot topics for the first-ever American Beauty Debate and go back to basics when they find themselves serving as a substitute teacher for a third-grade class.
Each of the previous seasons resulted in an unlikely romantic connection between a beauty and a geek. But what happens when one hot guy and one geeky girl get in on the action?
During each competition, the geek tries to pass brains on to the beauty, while the beauty helps the geek overcome social awkwardness.
At the end of the 13-week season, each contestant comes out a changed person, and one couple will walk away with a quarter of a million dollars.
Seasons
Season 1
Premiere: 24 March 2006 | Finale: 5 May 2006 | Episodes: 7 | Fridays, 21h00
Season 2
Premiere: 7 July 2006 | Finale: 1 September 2006 | Episodes: 9 | Fridays, 21h00
Season 3
Premiere: 6 July 2007 | Finale: 31 August 2007 | Episodes: 9 | Fridays, 20h00
Season 4
Premiere: 22 August 2008 | Finale: 14 November 2008 | Episodes: 13 | Fridays, 20h00