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Net Also Sets 'Beauty Queens' Docu-Soap; Slate Takes Similar Path to A&E's
Discovery Networks' TLC has greenlighted "Miami Ink," a six-episode reality series set in a South Beach tattoo parlor and scheduled for a late-summer debut. The series sets the stage for a face-off against competitor A&E, which is launching a Las Vegas-based tattoo parlor series called "Inked" this summer.
Though it's unlikely the shows will air during the same weeks, the dueling tattoo projects illustrate how close in content reality programming has brought TLC and A&E-cable networks with very different brands-in recent months.
A&E, long known as an artsy outlet, has pulled itself out of its rating doldrums with contemporary "docu-soap" reality shows such as "Dog...