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One of Fremantle's duds, this show about ordinary woman who undergo plastic surgery was canceled at the end of its second season on Fox in 2004 after losing about a quarter of its audience. "It's kind of a hairy show," says Mike Darnell, Fox's president of alternative entertainment. "I don't now any other way to say it. You are doing full-on surgery."

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