Crazy summer TV shows;
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Sci Fi, Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET/PT, premiering July 27
Now this is summer camp! Eleven wannabes, sporting inventive costumes, demonstrate human powers — courage, integrity, compassion — required of a superhero. Some need work in superhero etiquette: One changes into costume in a garbage can. The winner gets "immortalized" in a comic book developed by legend Stan Lee, host of the six-episode series.
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Pants-Off Dance-Off
Fuse, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET
The concept is as brief as the apparel: More or less regular people — from a twentysomething cancer researcher to a 58-year-old schoolteacher, to a 34-year-old professional mermaid (OK, that's irregular) — strip down to their skivvies while dancing to music videos by Shakira, 50 Cent and others. Viewers pick a nightly champ. This disrobe-a-thon has been called brilliant and dumb, sometimes by the same people. "We're very proud of that," Fuse GM Catherine Mullen says.
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Sci Fi, Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET/PT, premiering July 27
Now this is summer camp! Eleven wannabes, sporting inventive costumes, demonstrate human powers — courage, integrity, compassion — required of a superhero. Some need work in superhero etiquette: One changes into costume in a garbage can. The winner gets "immortalized" in a comic book developed by legend Stan Lee, host of the six-episode series.
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Pants-Off Dance-Off
Fuse, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET
The concept is as brief as the apparel: More or less regular people — from a twentysomething cancer researcher to a 58-year-old schoolteacher, to a 34-year-old professional mermaid (OK, that's irregular) — strip down to their skivvies while dancing to music videos by Shakira, 50 Cent and others. Viewers pick a nightly champ. This disrobe-a-thon has been called brilliant and dumb, sometimes by the same people. "We're very proud of that," Fuse GM Catherine Mullen says.
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Why should stripping and dancing be dumb?
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