broadcastingcable.com - A pair of potential NBC reality projects are unraveling, including the network's $40 million "Destination Mir" project. NBC execs have made a late switch with "Big Brother"
producers Endemol Entertainment, opting not to go forward with series "Chains of Love" and splitting up its 17-hour commitment to the Dutch studio on a pair of reality series instead.
NBC is now
moving forward on "Sweet Revenge" and "Nerves of Steel." "Sweet Revenge" is a hidden-camera series and "Nerves of Steel" pits two teams against each other trying to outdo the other in rigorous
contests. After being high on the project several months ago, NBC execs cited "creative differences" with Endemol over "Chains of Love," where four or five men would have been chained together with
one female contestant for a week.
On Destination Mir, NBC executives say they are still going forward with plans for the summer series despite Russia's apparent plans to bring down the Mir space
station. Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov told a Russian news agency earlier in the week that government may bring down the aging space station in February. NBC's Destination Mir is
scheduled for next summer.