The show was popular due to being designed to be aired around or past midnight, when its target audience was just coming home from being out or ending their studies for the evening.
Then, when there are only two suitors left, the setting moves to a hot tub or VIP area of a club, where sex acts may happen.
The extremity of some of the cattiness suggests handling and line-feeding from producers,[citation needed] and contestants respond to these situations in interview sequences filmed after the fact.
Episodes were filmed in over three dozen cities, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus, Little Rock, St. Paul, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Raleigh and Sacramento, and syndicators usually received strong support from affiliate stations to find contestants for the series within their cities through casting calls.
In 2002, a short-lived British version aired on ITV, presented by former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona.