The WB Gives High School Reunion Third Season

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Executives at The WB are so impressed with the second iteration of High School Reunion, which doesn’t premiere until February, that they already have ordered a third season of the show.

Executive producer Mike Fleiss and his Next Entertainment this week are starting production on the third installment with alumni from a high school in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Season two, which was produced last spring, will feature alumni from Round Rock High School in Austin, Texas. The first season brought together classmates from the 1992 graduating class of Illinois schools Oak Park and River Forest High for a reunion in Maui, Hawaii, and set all sorts of records for The WB in its Sunday 9 p.m. time slot.

The WB’s other unscripted franchise, The Surreal Life, premieres this Sunday at 9 p.m., with the unlikely duo of ex-evangelist Tammy Faye Baker and ex-porn star Ron Jeremy taking up residence with four other one-time celebrities in a Hollywood Hills mansion.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.