When Spicy Meets Sweet

Infobox Television
show_name = When Spicy Meets Sweet


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format = Competition, Reality, Dating
runtime = approx. :05 (per episode)
creator = MTV and Doritos
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executive_producer =
starring = NEXTORNOT.com finalists
country = USA
network = MTV
first_aired = April 18th, 2008
last_aired =
num_episodes = 18
website =http://spicyandsweet.nextornot.com/
imdb_id =
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"When Spicy Meets Sweet" is an interstitial reality television program produced by MTV and Doritos. The micro-series premiered on April 18th, 2008 between 2pm -- 5pm ET/PT during MTV's Friday programming block, now dubbed "Spicy Sweet Fridays." [ [http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20080502&ID=8582894&Symbol=VIA Doritos and MTV Reality Dating Series 'When Spicy Meets Sweet' Finale Now Up to Fans: PRNewswire Business News: VIA - MSN Money ] ]

=Plot=The 18-episode reality-dating series began airing on April 18th, 2008 when fans saw what happened as spicy girls and sweet guys were matched up to goon dates. Throughout the short-form series, cast members took on some ofthe most unpredictable dating experiences of their lives, all captured onfilm and watched by millions. Viewers saw their chosen sweet guys go onspicy dates such as a trip to the tattoo and piercing parlor, while theirchosen spicy girls explored their sweeter side on dates such asvolunteering at a senior citizens center. At the ending of the dates, there was an elimination process, leaving only one date for each. [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-02-2008/0004805540&EDATE= Doritos and MTV Reality Dating Series 'When Spicy Meets Sweet' Finale Now Up to Fans ] ]

Cast

*Amara Cash (Hollywood, California)- Spicy
*Ryan Holden (Manhattan Beach, California)- Sweet
*TJ Beaverson (New Cumberland, Pennsylvania)- Sweet
*Brendan Jennings (Carrier Mills, Illinois)-Sweet
*Brian Morris (Peachtree City, Georgia)- Sweet
*Drew Cook (Jay, Florida)- Sweet
*Sarah Barker (Las Vegas, Nevada- Spicy
*Jillian McCleaf (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania)- Spicy
*Kristen (Warwick, Rhode Island)- Spicy
*Louissa (Orlando, Florida)- Spicy

=Doritos, MTV affiliation=In February of 2008, Doritos and MTV invited fans across the country to submit their profile on Doritos' website snackstrongproductions.com for a chance to be cast on the new reality dating series. To support this program, MTV re-branded its web site "www.nextornot.com" to "spicyandsweet.nextornot.com" to be as an interactive community for hopefuls to submit their profiles. Between February 25 and March 16, online viewers helped to determine the four "spicy" girls and four "sweet" guys to be cast in the show by the amount of time spent on their favorite profiles. The web site has garnered more than 19 million page views, with users averaging more than 30 minutes on the site for one visit.Fact|date=August 2008 In 2007 Doritos aired two consumer-created commercials during Super Bowl XLI as part the "Crash the Super Bowl challenge". [ [http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/doritos-and-mtv-reality-dating,377759.shtml Doritos and MTV Reality Dating Series 'When Spicy Meets Sweet' Finale Now Up to Fans ] ]

Doritos was the main sponsor of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. for the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons, the latter of which was spent in the English Premier League. Doritos officially sponsored the "Hail to the Cheese Stephen Colbert's Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008 Presidential Campaign Coverage." [http://www.indecision2008.com/blog.jhtml?c=vc&videoId=118650 Colbert video from Comedy Central] ] The money given to Colbert could not be used to directly fund his campaign, so he used the money to fund "The Colbert Report". He claimed that he would not use his show to plug Doritos, but plugged the chips during these claims. After his canidacy was rejected by the government, Colbert joked that "his body will stop producing bright orange waste."cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ie176af092ab824d69450c1962f933c9b |title=Doritos still the word for Colbert |accessdate=2008-03-20 ] In March 2008, Colbert partnered with Doritos, specifically the Spicy Sweet Chili flavor, to promote his Philadelphia-based coverage of the Pennsylvania primaries.cite web |url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080318/pl_usnw/for_the_first_time_ever__the_colbert_report__hits_the_road____the_colbert_report__dorito_s_spicy_sweet_pennsylvania_primary_cov |title= For the First Time-Ever 'The Colbert Report' Hits the Road - 'The Colbert Report: Dorito's Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania Primary Coverage From Chili-Delphi |accessdate=2008-04-04 ]

NextOrNot.com

MTV debuted [http://nextornot.com NextOrNot.com] , the online companion to the series, in October 2007. Inspired in equal part by ratings sites such as HotOrNot.com and online social networks like Facebook, Nextornot.com allows users to browse through a library of user profiles featuring prominent pictures and personal information. Time spent by site users looking at each profile is logged, and at the end of each day the user whose profile has received the highest cumulative viewing time appears on MTV as the "Hottie of the Day."

External links

* [http://spicyandsweet.nextornot.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.doritos.com/ Doritos]
* [http://www.snackstrongproductions.com/ Snack Strong Productions]
* [http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/next/series.jhtml]

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