Salt-n-Pepa & others will spice up VH1

[Brian Damage]

VH1 will add a new night of original prime-time programming later this year, using some of the seven new series it's ordering to fill that time.

In keeping with its celebrity-centric focus, VH1's new shows will center on acts like Salt-n-Pepa, who are reuniting for the first time in years, and Danny Bonaduce.

MTV Networks group president Brian Graden said the new shows will celebrate public fascination with pop culture.

The programs will launch in the fourth quarter of this year or in early 2008.

VH1 has ordered 10 episodes of "The Salt-n-Pepa Show," which will follow the rap duo as they try to reunite after 2002's breakup. "The dynamics between both of them are very tentative, very tense," Graden said of the two performers in the pilot. "There's all this history not discussed. ... How will it play out?"

Also in the works is "America's Most Smartest Model," a series in which 14 models, male and female, test their intelligence.

"Click" is a reality show that gives 10 amateurs a chance to become fashion photographers.

In "Danny Bonaduce's Child Star," the '70s "Partridge Family" star will head the search for a great stage-hungry kid.

In other projects, "Lords of the Revolution" is a documentary series looking at nonconformist heroes.

"Old School With Terry and Gita" has 77-year-old former actor Terry Moore and 72-year-old former model Gita Hall exploring hot topics in pop culture.

And "Free Radio" is a half-hour improvised comedy with fictional radio hosts interviewing real celebrities.


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[gidgetgrape]

The Salt-n-Pepa Show sounds interesting. I use to be crazy about them. They broke up because Salt became religious and didn't feel comfortable with the raps they had been performing.