CMT has announced it's ordered Outsider's Inn, a new reality series starring Gone Country first-season participants Maureen McCormick, Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson as they operate a bed-and-breakfast in rural Tennessee.
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Production is already underway in Newport, TN, and the eight-episodes series is currently slated to premiere Friday, August 15.
Similar to the first two seasons of Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love reality series, Outsider's Inn will have a fish-out-of-water format as McCormick leaves the city and discovers an inn overlooking the Great Smokey Mountains -- ultimately deciding to lease it with an options to buy.
She subsequently enlists fellow Gone Country participants Brown and Wilson to help her run the bed-and-breakfast, with McCormick taking over management of the inn and property; Brown becoming entertainment director; and Wilson assuming the role of master chef.
Outsider's Inn will then follow the three as they oversee McCormick's new business venture and the guests who visit.
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Gone Country premiered in January and followed seven established celebrities as they moved to Nashville for two weeks and immersed themselves in a all things Southern for the chance to record and release a country song. It was eventually won by pop singer Julio Iglesias Jr., and CMT recently renewed the show for a second season.
McCormack and Wilson have both previously appeared on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club -- with Wilson participating in the show's Summer 2006 fourth season and McCormack winning its Spring 2007 fifth season.
Earlier this year Wilson also appeared as a contestant on VH1's Celebracadabra magic-themed reality competition series. Brown and his now ex-wife Whitney Houston co-starred in Being Bobby Brown, a reality series that focused on their everyday lives.
Outsider's Inn is executive produced by David Garfinkle and Jay Renfroe of Renegade 83 Productions.
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