| Genre: | Parody Deadpan |
| Runtime: | 12 minutes 22 minutes (syndicated version) |
| Creator: | Erica Oyama |
| Director: | Ken Marino |
| Starring: | Michael Ian Black Ken Marino June Diane Raphael |
| Executive Producer: | Jonathan Stern Stuart Cornfeld Michael J. Rosenstein Ken Marino Erica Oyama Ben Stiller |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 42 |
| Company: | Red Hour Films Abominable Pictures Dancing Workfriend Insurge Pictures Yahoo! Studios |
| Network: | Yahoo! Screen E! (syndicated version) |
Burning Love is a comedy television series that is a spoof of reality dating competition shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.[1] The show was created and written by Erica Oyama, while her husband, Ken Marino, co-produced, directed and starred in the series. Ben Stiller was one of the series' executive producers and appeared in a supporting role.
The show premiered on the web on Yahoo! Screen's Comedy Channel[2] and was later picked up for television.[3] In 2013, the series was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs category.[4]
The contestants:
Other characters:
The contestants:
Other characters:
The contestants:
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Depending on the season, the show either follows a man or a woman who is looking for the perfect mate from a pool of contestants, or has contestants living together in a mansion competing for a cash prize. Season one showcases fireman Mark Orlando (Ken Marino) as the bachelor. Season two of the series, which premiered in February 2013, stars June Diane Raphael reprising her role as season one contestant Julie, now the bachelorette given the chance to find the perfect man. Season three also premiered in 2013 and starred former contestants from seasons one and two competing for a $900 prize rather than for love (similar to Bachelor spin-off, Bachelor Pad).[5]
The seasons of the show as listed do not match the internally referenced season chronology because of two fictitious seasons. Internally season one references the Joe Rutherford (Ben Stiller) season, and seasons two and three references the Annie (Abigail Spencer) season. Neither of these seasons was produced but occurred within the fiction of the show with events from those seasons being frequently mentioned during the course of various real episodes. Season three also announced a nonexistent season with superfan Hathwell Crisping.
Burning Love with Joe Rutherford (nonexistent)
1. Burning Love with Mark Orlando
Burning Love: Hot For Teacher (nonexistent) with Annie
2. Burning Love with Julie Gristlewhite
3. Burning Love: Burning Down The House
Burning Love: A Fanty Tale (nonexistent) with Hathwell Granger Crisping
| Bachelorettes | Episodes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6/7 | 8/9/10 | 11 | 13 | 14† | |||
| 1 | Annie | Tamara G. | Titi | Willow | Annie | Annie | |||||
| 2 | Agnes | Julie | Julie | Titi | Julie | Titi | Carly | Carly | Titi | ||
| 3 | Ballerina | Annie | Lexie | Haley | Tamara G. | Carly | Annie | Titi | Ballerina1 | Carly | |
| 4 | Carly | Haley | Haley | Agnes | Titi | Tamara G. | Willow | Tamara G. | |||
| 5 | Dana | Mandy | Agnes | Annie | Vivian | Haley | Tamara G. | ||||
| 6 | Destiny | Willow | Willow | Vivian | Carly | Annie | Haley | ||||
| 7 | Haley | Titi | Carly | Willow | Willow | Vivian | |||||
| 8 | Julie | Carly | Mandy | Carly | Haley | Julie | |||||
| 9 | Lexie | Agnes | Vivian | Lexi | Agnes | Agnes | |||||
| 10 | Mandy | Lexie | Annie | Julie | Lexi | ||||||
| 11 | Shera | Tamara P. | Tamara G. | Mandy | |||||||
| 12 | Tamara G. | Destiny | Dana | ||||||||
| 13 | Tamara P. | Vivian | Destiny | ||||||||
| 14 | Titi | Dana | Tamara P. | ||||||||
| 15 | Vivian | Ballerina | |||||||||
| 16 | Willow | ||||||||||
The contestant was eliminated when bachelorettes first arrived.
The contestant was eliminated during hose ceremony.
The contestant was eliminated by other contestants.
The contestant received hose on group date.
The contestant was eliminated in episode 6 on one-on-one date.
The contestant was eliminated in episode 8 for violating rules.
The contestant was eliminated in episode 9 on two-on-one date.
The contestant was eliminated in the final proposal ceremony.
The contestant was proposed to and accepted proposal.
The contestant was proposed to and rejected proposal.
| Order | Episode | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2 | 3/4 | 5 | 6/7 | 8/9/10 | 11 | 12/13 | |
| 1 | Blaze | Blaze | Blaze | Blaze | Alex* | ||
| 2 | Simon | Henry | Allison | Henry | Henry* | ||
| 3 | Alex | Wally | Henry | Henry | Alex | ||
| 4 | Max | Alex | Alex | Max | |||
| 5 | Leo | Max | Max | Alex | |||
| 6 | Henry | Allison | Teddy | ||||
| 7 | Wally | Teddy | Leo | ||||
| 8 | Damien | Leo | Simon | ||||
| 9 | Robby Z | Simon | |||||
| 10 | Teddy | ||||||
| 11 | Allison | ||||||
| 12 | Zakir | ||||||
| 13 | |||||||
The contestant was eliminated at the box ceremony
The contestant was eliminated for being too drunk, getting into a fight, and urinating in the wine cellar.
The contestant was eliminated while on the puppet date for calling it 'dumb'
The contestant left on his own for not being into Julie
The contestant was given a box while on zoo date
The contestant was given a box while on camping date
The contestant left on his own since Julie isn't Jewish
The contestant proposed to Julie but she rejected him
The contestant proposed to Julie but then he had to bounce because he wasn't into Julie
The contestant proposed to Julie who accepted but then removed her acceptance to accept Blaze's then Mark's Proposal
The contestant proposed to Julie and she accepted
| Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
| 1 | Annie | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||
| 2 | Blaze | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||||
| 3 | Julie | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||||
| 4 | Mark | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||||
| 5 | Carly | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||
| 6 | Zakir | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||
| 7 | Felicia | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| 8 | Hathwell | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| 9 | Simon | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||||
| 10 | Virginia | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||||
| 11 | Alex | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||||||
| 12 | Lexi | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||||||
| 13 | Haley | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |||||||||
| 14 | Bevarly | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||||||||
| 15 | Noah | IN | IN | IN | |||||||||||
| 16 | Kirk | IN | |||||||||||||
| 17 | Vivian | IN | |||||||||||||
| 18 | Symphony | ||||||||||||||
The contestant won the challenge
The contestant was eliminated by other players
The contestant quit
The contestant was taken on a date by the challenge winner
The contestant was taken on a date by the challenge winner and was granted immunity
The contestant was forced to leave when she was arrested
The contestant left because she was impregnated
The contestant was eliminated when they lost the challenge
The contestant returned because the rule book states that everyone needed a partner
The contestant was voted by the other contestant as a member of the winning couple and chose the money over the relationship, therefore winning overall
The contestant was voted by the other contestant as a member of the winning couple and chose the relationship over the money, therefore losing out on the prize money
The first season of Burning Love had its worldwide television premiere on E! in Australia in January 2013 and E! in America on February 25, 2013.[3] In Canada, the series premiered on Much; a sister to the local version of E!.[6]
The first season premiered in the UK on Netflix in October 2013, edited into a 110-minute movie.[7] The second season premiered on Australia's E! in February 2014, with the third season premiering on March 6, 2014.
Season one was released on DVD on November 12, 2013. A year later, seasons two and three were released together as a two-disc set on September 16, 2014.
The complete series is available on Pluto TV.
A French version of the series premiered on October 12, 2020 on Canal+. Titled La Flamme (The Flame), this version was created by Jérémie Galan, Florent Bernard and Jonathan Cohen, who also starred as the bachelor, Marc, in the first season. Ben Stiller is also one of the executive producers of this adaptation. The first season stars Leïla Bekhti, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Marie-Pierre Casey, Florence Foresti, Ana Girardot, Léonie Simaga, Géraldine Nakache, Camille Chamoux, Doria Tillier, Youssef Hajdi, Vincent Dedienne, Laure Calamy, Céline Salette, Angèle, Géraldine Nakache and Pierre Niney.[8] On October 27, 2020, it was renewed for a second season titled Le Flambeau : Les Aventuriers de Chupacabra (The Torch: The Adventurers of Chupacabra), a spoof of the French version of Koh-Lanta. It premiered on May 23, 2022.[9]