The second season of the series premiered on October 9, 2006. Along with Wife Swap and The Bachelor, it was part of ABC's first primetime Monday evening lineup for the fall not to include Monday Night Football, since that show's shift to ESPN.
The start of the second season occurred on October 9, 2006. As part of ABC's new fall schedule, it joined Wife Swap and The Bachelor in a reorganized primetime lineup that bypassed traditional sports programming, which had shifted to ESPN.