Competition among networks and their reality shows is getting unreal. ABC’s Wife Swap, based on the UK show Wife Swap, has already begat two spinoffs, even before a single ep has aired. Wife Swap takes two maternal heads of household and places each in the other’s house. No delicious ’70s-style suburban sex ensues, though. Even in randy England. Spinoff #1, Husband Swap, is, well, the same show, different sex. Spinoff #2, Boss Swap, already airing in Britain, swtiches two executives. Meanwhile, according to realitytvworld.com, Fox is planning a ripoff version of Wife Swap called Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, which will include occasional father-swapping. We can rest uneasy that the US will not be purchasing rights to the UK’s nude version of Wife Swap, which features couples who live in a nudist community. Pity.

Since most Brit shows get appropriated by US nets, we can probably look forward to the latest effort from Daisy Goodwin of Talkback Productions in the UK that will have slovenly and wayward husbands being made over by dog trainers. Woof, that’s hot.