Classy Summer TV

When reruns rule, it's time for another round of reality TV to fill the gap. Our current favorites are The Scholar and Beauty and the Geek. As if these valedictorian high school kids haven't had enough pressure to get into college, they now have the pressure of competing for a full ride scholarship while living together in The Scholar. More entertaining than you might think. Beauty and the Geek pairs up mostly airhead georgous women with dorky, smart, socially inept guys. They compete in various things that require the guys to make the girls smarter and the girls to make the guys more, er, bearable. So far so good. And what rundown of summer reality TV would be complete without mentioning Dara's guilty pleasure: Strip Search. VH1 VJ Rachel Perry and a guy who produced the Australian version of the show, ominously titled The Thunder Down Under, go on a cross country trip to find "fifteen ordinary men from all across America [...] to compete for one of seven six-figure, one-year contracts as a member of a traveling male strip revue troupe." It just doesn't get much better than that, does it. Keith, you may want to alert Kirsti to this one.