Nick and Vanessa Lachey outdid themselves with Love Is Blind all the way back in pre-pandemic 2020 — so much so that Netflix handed them the keys for a second season, and later, the green light for a brand-new love-and-romance reality TV show, The Ultimatum, which premiered earlier this year.
That series has just wrapped its second season, and it appears the call for more LGBTQ+ representation in trashy reality TV has finally been answered: Season 2 — titled The Ultimatum: Queer Love — will reportedly feature an all-queer cast of marriage-hopefuls, most of whom identify as female, according to Variety.
For the uninitiated, The Ultimatum is a reality television series in which six couples enter a social experiment to test the strength of their relationship. One person in the couple wants to get married, while the other one doesn't. They're split up and assigned new partners for three weeks, before moving back in with their original partner, and by the end of the season, they're tasked with deciding whether to break up forever. To make things even messier, there's a ton of alcohol flowing from those omnipresent metal wine cups.
"To me, the opportunity to tell lots of stories from lots of different people is really exciting and it's less so about the particular format that we tell those stories in and more about the fact that we're telling those stories," said Chris Coelen, executive producer and CEO of Kinetic Content.
Coelen will serve as executive producer on Season 2 alongside Eric Detwiler, Sarah Dillistone, Stephanie Boyriven, Kelly Montalvo and Chris Cullen. The new season is reportedly already in its editing phase.
The team behind The Ultimatum are also apparently working on ways to incorporate queer contestants into their other properties, including Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight — and to that, we say: do Too Hot to Handle next, please!
That series has just wrapped its second season, and it appears the call for more LGBTQ+ representation in trashy reality TV has finally been answered: Season 2 — titled The Ultimatum: Queer Love — will reportedly feature an all-queer cast of marriage-hopefuls, most of whom identify as female, according to Variety.
For the uninitiated, The Ultimatum is a reality television series in which six couples enter a social experiment to test the strength of their relationship. One person in the couple wants to get married, while the other one doesn't. They're split up and assigned new partners for three weeks, before moving back in with their original partner, and by the end of the season, they're tasked with deciding whether to break up forever. To make things even messier, there's a ton of alcohol flowing from those omnipresent metal wine cups.
"To me, the opportunity to tell lots of stories from lots of different people is really exciting and it's less so about the particular format that we tell those stories in and more about the fact that we're telling those stories," said Chris Coelen, executive producer and CEO of Kinetic Content.
Coelen will serve as executive producer on Season 2 alongside Eric Detwiler, Sarah Dillistone, Stephanie Boyriven, Kelly Montalvo and Chris Cullen. The new season is reportedly already in its editing phase.
The team behind The Ultimatum are also apparently working on ways to incorporate queer contestants into their other properties, including Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight — and to that, we say: do Too Hot to Handle next, please!