Married at First Sight is getting two new spinoffs starring fan-favorite participants from seasons past.
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Lifetime has announced it has ordered Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island and Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After for debut in Fall 2018.
Both new series will be produced by Kinetic Entertainment, the same production company that produces Married at First Sight.
Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island will bring back both participants and unmatched candidates from previous Married at First Sight seasons for another shot at love at first sight, while the Happily Ever After spinoff will follow three couples from past Married at First Sight seasons and chronicle their current stories.
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Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island will feature 20 participants unlucky in love -- both fan-favorite MAFS participants and previously unmatched candidates, as well as new singles -- gathering together on an island for an opportunity to make connections with each other.
"At the end of their stay, couples must decide whether they want to get married or part ways," according to Lifetime, which will air the series as eight one-hour episodes.
Honeymoon Island is being executive produced by Chris Coelen, Eric Detwiler, Cat Rodriguez, Ally Simpson and Gena McCarthy.
Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After will chronicle several relationships from the franchise that have withstood the ultimate commitment under the most unusual circumstances.
The show will feature three couples from past Married at First Sight seasons who have decided to stay married beyond the experiment, documenting their daily milestones -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Shawniece Jackson and Jephte Pierre from Season 6 of Married at First Sight -- who are currently expecting their first child together -- will be one of the three pairs.
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Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After will focus on Shawniece and Jephte's "emotional journey to becoming parents," teases Lifetime.
Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After is being executive produced by the same people behind Honeymoon Island, with the additions of Alex Cross and Shura Davidson, and also air as eight one-hour episodes.
Based on the network's descriptions, it appears Lifetime is borrowing the premise of ABC's Bachelor in Paradise, which features rejected singles from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette receiving a second chance at finding love at a resort in Mexico, as well as TLC's 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, which follows established engaged or married couples from its original series.
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Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After's premise also seems similar to Married at First Sight: The First Year, a prior MAFS spinoff which aired in 2015 and 2016 and followed the two Married at First Sight Season 1 couples who opted to married at the end of the season: Jason Carrion and Cortney Hendrix as well as Doug Hehner and Jamie Otis.
In 2017, Married at First Sight also did a second spinoff, Married At First Sight: Second Chances, which starred Vanessa Nelson and David Norton, who participated in Season 3 but each ended up divorcing the partner they had married on the show.
Married At First Sight: Second Chances featured a format similar to The Bachelor/The Bachelorette in which Vanessa and David each dated a group of singles and eliminated them weekly until only one remained.
Married at First Sight: The First Year ran for two seasons, but Married At First Sight: Second Chances was not renewed for a second season. However, Doug and Jamie did star in a third spinoff -- Married at First Sight: Jamie and Doug Plus One -- late last year.
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The original Married at First Sight series is currently airing its seventh season on Tuesday nights. The Dallas-based couples are Danielle Bergman and Bobby Dodd, Mia Bally and Tristan Thompson, and Amber Martorana and Dave Flaherty.
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