Pros vs. Joes is an American physical reality game show that airs on Spike TV. The show features male amateur contestants (the "Joes") matching themselves against professional athletes (the "Pros"; comprised mostly of retired male and female pro-athletes) in a series of athletic feats related to the expertise sport of the Pro they are facing. For its first three seasons, the show was hosted by Petros Papadakis. Since Season Four, it has been co-h...
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Pros vs. Joes is an American physical reality game show that airs on Spike TV. The show features male amateur contestants (the "Joes") matching themselves against professional athletes (the "Pros"; comprised mostly of retired male and female pro-athletes) in a series of athletic feats related to the expertise sport of the Pro they are facing. For its first three seasons, the show was hosted by Petros Papadakis. Since Season Four, it has been co-hosted by Michael Strahan and Jay Glazer. The first two seasons were filmed at Carson, California's Home Depot Center, which was referenced in aerial shots.
In 2006, prior to the show's initial airing, attorneys for former Archie Comics Film & TV Founder/CEO Tony DeRosa-Grund's filed suit in NY State Supreme Court (Index Number:602080/06) against Spike and parent company Viacom, claiming that Spike had "lifted" the "Pros vs Joes" show from another reality series, created by DeRosa-Grund, that the parties had been in discussions over called "The...
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