Beauty and the Geek: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The CW hit reality show, Beauty and the Geek returns with an outrageously fun fourth season where the new contestants are thrown a curveball that is as shocking as it is hilarious. 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 series, each contestant comes out a changed person, and one couple will walk away with a quarter of a million dollars.

Series details

• Title: Beauty and the Geek
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Romance
• Premiere date: 2005-06-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2008-05-13
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: The CW
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 5.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 1680

Cast and credited roles

• Mike Richards — Host
• Brian McFayden — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2005-06-01; final listed air date 2005-07-13; episode order: 7.
• Season 2: premiered 2006-01-12; final listed air date 2006-03-09; episode order: 8.
• Season 3: premiered 2007-01-03; final listed air date 2007-02-21; episode order: 9.
• Season 4: premiered 2007-09-18; final listed air date 2007-12-04; episode order: 13.
• Season 5: premiered 2008-03-11; final listed air date 2008-05-13; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Beauty and the Geek on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.