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; Dating-based competition: Dating-based competition shows follow a contestant choosing one out of a group of suitors.

Over the course of either a single episode or an entire season, suitors are eliminated until only the contestant and the final suitor remains.

For a time, in 2001 – 2003, this type of reality show dominated the other genres on the major US networks.

Shows that aired included The Bachelor, its spin-off The Bachelorette, as well as For Love or Money, Paradise Hotel, Temptation Island, Average Joe and Farmer Wants a Wife, among others.

More recent such shows include Flavor of Love and its spin-offs I Love New York, Rock of Love, and The Cougar.

This is one of the older variants of the format ; shows such as The Dating Game that date to the 1960s had similar premises ( though each episode was self-contained, and not the serial format of more modern shows ).