VH1 has a long list of new reality shows lined up for 2009-2010! First announcement was Jessica Simpson’s new series The Price Of Beauty. Additionally, VH1 will also air a reality series centered on the family and career of American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino as she refocuses and tries to get her career back on track. Then we hear that The Entertainer, from the I Love New York 2 and I Love Money shows has also scored his own series called The Entertainer, featuring his parents as well as the infamous basement bachelor pad. That’s not it y’all, VH1 has teamed up with Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt-N-Pepa and Chilli from TLC – giving each pioneering hip-hop artist her own series revolving around their current lives as single women. The yet-to-be titled Pepa and Chilli series will premiere on VH1 in 2010.

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The untitled Pepa series is a real-life comedy following Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt-N-Pepa fame as she emerges from her self-imposed romantic and sexual dormancy of the past four years as she begins her to search for love again.  After years of living a celibate life in order to focus on finding “the one,” Pep has realized that giving up sex actually got her nowhere in the relationship world. She didn’t “evolve,” she didn’t land a husband and the only close relationship she formed was with her exercise bike.  But she’s not the only one. Her three closest girlfriends are all single and searching too.  The four friends will laugh, cry and dish the dirt as they support each other along the way.  The “Pepa” series has been picked up for eight half-hour episodes and is set to premiere in 2010. The “Pepa” series is executive produced by Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman for Left/Right, Inc. Executive Producers for VH1 are Shelly Tatro, Danielle Gelfand, Kari McFarland and Jeff Olde.
Chilli from R&B supergroup TLC, has decided to take the reins of her lackluster romantic situation and launch an all out search for the love of her life in the yet-to-be-titled Chilli Project.  Despite huge success as a recording artist and a mother, Chilli has grown tired of striking out on the romantic front, so she has enlisted the help of Brooklyn relationship expert Tionna Smalls.  Not one to let people take the easy way out, Tionna has promised to give Chilli the challenging emotional workout she needs in order to get over the hurdles that have kept her from having the long-term serious relationship she craves.  The series has been picked up for eight half-hour episodes and is set to premiere in 2010. (The Chilli Project is executive produced by Fremantle Media North America.  Larry Barron, Kevin Williams, Bill Diggins and Chilli are executive producers.  Executive producers for VH1 are Jim Ackerman, Dave Hamilton and Jeff Olde.)
The Entertainer will star Frank “The Entertainer” Moresca and the ever watchful eyes of his parents.  Frank is best known as the guy who still lives in his parents’ basement from the VH1 shows I Love New York and I Love Money.  Meanwhile, his parents have grown ever weary of their 32-year-old slacker son’s current living arrangements – their basement.  In a last ditch effort to help Frank get out from under his parents thumb VH1 is giving him the opportunity to find love from a bevy of naïve hopefuls and the incentive he needs to move out of the basement and on his own.  The Entertainer has been picked up for ten one-hour episodes and is set to premiere sometime in 2010.   (The Entertainer is executive produced by Cris Abrego, Mark Cronin and Ben Samek for 51 Minds.  Executive producing for VH1 are Jill Holmes, Kristen Kelly and Jeff Olde.)
Fantasia’s Reality Show: VH1 will partner with World Of Wonder Productions in a direct-to-series project starring Fantasia, the 9-time Grammy-nominated R&B singer and star of stage, television and Broadway.
VH1 will follow Fantasia along her life’s journey — a journey full of both ups and downs — and will share how she deals with life and the seismic aftershocks of fame. The show will reveal Fantasia’s “reality” — her life as a blossoming recording artist and a young single mother who has achieved great success, but not without her share of hardship along the way. Nevertheless, Fantasia continues to persevere with the courage to live life with an openness and sincerity that her fans have come to love her for. The series is slated for an early 2010 premiere. Hailing from High Point, North Carolina, Fantasia rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. Since then, Fantasia’s life has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Her young recording career has already earned her 9 Grammy nominations. She also told her story in her New York Times best-selling autobiography Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, which led to the production of a film by Lifetime Television film by the same name in which she played herself. In 2007, Fantasia played the role of Celie in the Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple to rave reviews. Presently, Fantasia is back in the studio working on her third album preparing to wow the world with the gift that first brought introduced her to the world stage– her voice. “Fantasia has one of the most fascinating stories in show business, from her tough upbringing to her meteoric rise on the national scene thanks to American Idol. Her challenges from fame and her unwillingness to fail have combined to create a larger-than-life talent who appeals to music lovers around the world,” said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production, VH1. “So many people wanted to work with her on this, but Fantasia is now part of the VH1 family, and we’re so happy to have her.” “Fantasia’s life has been an open book. But at 24 years old, her story has just begun,” said Executive Producer, Randy Barbato. “We look forward to smashing expectations and revealing the fresh, funny and unexpected side of this one-of-a-kind country girl/superstar.” The series is executive produced by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato and Tom Campbell for World of Wonder. Executive producers for VH1 are Jill Holmes, Kristen Kelly and Jeff Olde.
More on Simpson’s “The Price of Beauty” here:
http://blog.vh1.com/2009-06-22/jessica-simpsons-the-price-of-beauty-coming-soon-to-vh1/

source: VH1