Former Sex and the City star Kristin Davis made headlines again in mid-March after news dropped that she was going to host a new reality show on FOX, Labor of Love. The show, which is about an older woman who is trying to become a parent, caught our attention immediately—and not just because there’s a gaping hole in our schedule with The Bachelorette filming postponed.
We’re already hooked by the fact that this show seems nothing like The Bachelorette, although the premise certainly sounds similar: Woman ISO man. But this woman’s journey is going to be different. What will it entail, exactly? It’s complicated.
After the trailer left question marks above everyone’s heads, we did some digging to find out what to expect from this new reality show. Here’s what you need to know about Labor of Love.
Let’s start with the Labor of Love trailer
In the trailer for the show, Davis can be seen supporting Kristy Katzmann, a successful, gorgeous 41-year-old woman, in her quest to have a baby with one of the show’s several male contestants, all of whom say they want to be dads.
But the official trailer for the show raises more questions than it answers. Is Kristy looking for someone to settle down with? A sperm donor? A future co-parent? It’s not clear. See for yourself:
Labor of Love premise: What’s it about?
The show appears to be kind of like The Bachelor…but not. Producers stress that this show concept and format is something entirely new in the entertainment space. “It’s very different from anything that you’ve seen before on any dating show,” says executive producer Spike Van Briesen, who has worked on shows like The Millionaire Matchmaker and The X Factor.
The show features Katzmann and 15 different men. Each week, the wannabe dads will go through challenges to test their parenting and partnership skills. If they pass, they’ll move on to the next week. If they don’t, they can still advance…but they might not. There’s not a rose ceremony or anything like that each week, Van Briesen says. Instead, Katzmann will simply cut a guy loose if she doesn’t see things working out. However, he says, she has the option to keep everyone around until the end if she wants to.
After eight weeks, Katzmann will decide if she’s found the right person, or if she’d rather cut bait and pursue her own path to motherhood.
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Wait—what’s Kristy searching for, exactly?
Van Briesen seems hesitant to give a clear answer. “Kristy is open to everything,” he says, adding that Katzmann went into the process with “both heart and mind open” to the idea of finding a partner or a sperm donor. “Ultimately, her goal is to find the best path to parenthood,” Van Briesen says. “If she finds that person and they both make a connection, then great. But she’s not opposed at all to using a sperm donor.”
Where’s the drama coming from?
Besides the whole stress of trying to find the perfect future partner-slash-co-parent-slash-sperm donor, the show features an operating system called The Big Board of Men that Kristy relies heavily on during her journey. “The system functions with an interface much like dating apps, but it goes a little bit deeper,” Van Briesen says. “It’s made specifically for Kristy and her personality and prioritizes what she’s looking for.”
Katzmann and Davis use “the board” to filter through the men and go through their profiles at any given point. “When she logs onto the application, the men can see who she’s looking at and what profile she’s in,” Van Briesen says. “The men know she’s looking at these profiles, but they can’t hear what she’s saying.” Van Briesen says that whenever Katzmann would access the board, the men would see it through a large monitor in their house. “The energy in the men would just rise, trying to figure out what she was doing,” he says. Cue the drama.
Who are the Labor of Love contestants?
Here’s who you can expect to be on the show this season:
Alan Santini, 39, a writer from South Africa.
Angelo Castricone, 39, a firefighter from Miami.
Budge Collinson, 44, a creative director from Maryland.
Gary Malec, 38, a baseball manufacturer from San Francisco.
Jason Christopher Smith, 38, a flooring business owner from South Carolina.
Keith Reams, 38, a gym owner in Los Angeles.
Kyle Klinger, 38, a sales and marketing director from Texas.
Marcus Lehman, 39, an anesthesiologist from Cincinnati.
Mario Calderon, 40, an optician from New York City.
Matt Kaye, 44, a former professional wrestler from New York.
Phillip Michael Jacques, 38, a medical technician at a children’s hospital from Los Angeles.
Stewart Gill, 40, a wealth management CEO from Los Angeles.
Tali Raphaely, 46, an attorney from Miami.
Trent Broach, 36, a tennis instructor from Colorado.
Walker Posey, 41, a funeral director from South Carolina.
What’s Kristin Davis doing in this?
She’s acting as sort of a BFF-slash-host of the show. And coincidentally (or not), she’s an adoptive single mom of two. “When I first heard the premise of Labor of Love, I knew I had to be a part of this show,” Davis told Deadline. “I believe every woman should feel empowered to go after their dreams, whether it be professional or personal, and to be at Kristy’s side as she took her future into her own hands was truly exciting.”
She also said in an Instagram post that the show is “quite fun and very interesting,” adding, “my biggest surprise was the intensity of the men’s desire to have a baby too!”
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Why now?
Simply put, “Her journey is a lot of women’s journeys,” says Walls. “The idea of the show came from this idea of, ‘What does it mean to have it all in 2020?’” she says. “The order that people traditionally subscribe to of how to be a parent is different.” Some people have babies first and get married later, others wait until their 40s to have babies, and some have children as a single parent, she points out, noting that there are even “dating” sites for co-parenting. “We started thinking about what it means if you took a woman who does have it all, and she wants a baby. What if you let her explore falling in love, co-parenting, sperm donating all at the same time?” Walls explains.
How is this going to be received?
We’ll have to wait and see, but Walls says she hopes people will see how genuine Katzmann and the men are in their pursuit of parenthood. “People are going to be surprised at how open and passionate these men are about talking about become fathers and falling in love,” she says. “People are going to be surprised—in a good way—by how many men out there are wanting to be fathers.”
Licensed clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D., author of Should I Stay or Should I Go?, explains that the COVID-19 pandemic may play a role in viewership. “For people who were very focused on their dating and relationships, and motivated toward longterm relationships and family, the pandemic threw a wrench in the works,” she says. “So perhaps this will open up people to new ways of thinking about relationships and mating.”
Pandemic aside, Gail Saltz, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the NY Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of medicine and host of the “Personology” podcast from iHeartRadio, says the core of the show will likely hit home with a lot of women. “Many women whose biological clock is closing in on them and who want a child, do feel pressure and could relate to the idea of finding a co-parent,” she says. “But as to whether this will have mass appeal…that’s a media mystery that is often really hard to predict.”
However, Dr. Durvasula has concerns that this will glamorize the idea of co-parenting. “I hear from many people—men and women—that they entered what they knew was a less-than-optimal relationship to become a parent,” she says. “In the battle of time, and the challenges of meeting, people more and more are really feeling the pressure of wanting to be a parent, but not wanting to rush into a relationship or capitulate to a suboptimal one.” She stresses that a reality show like this might not capture all of the heartache and difficulty that can come with a situation like this, like trying to figure out custody agreements, the shared financial burden of raising a child together and the tricky world of figuring out if you do or don’t want to be in a romantic relationship with a co-parent.
But Van Briesen says his team worked hard to “do all the right things in the story we were telling.” Walls agrees. “This is not exploitative,” she says.
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Why Kristy Katzmann?
She was just a good fit for this, says executive producer Anne Walls. “The casting was what mattered the most. We found the right woman and the right guys,” she says. According to her Instagram profile, Katzmann is a self-described “boss babe” and a key account manager at Ora Organic, a company that sells vegan organic supplements.
She’s also cofounder of the health and lifestyle website Modern Mamanista and has this interesting nugget on her bio: “I hope to start my own family someday! My sisters predict twins but we’ll see what life has planned for me.”
By the way, this isn’t her first time on reality TV. Katzmann was a contestant on the 11th season of The Bachelor (with Brad Womack).
What happened to Kristy Katzmann on The Bachelor season 11?
Katzmann stuck around for a little bit on Womack’s season, but didn’t last super long—she was eliminated during week five.
Is Katzmann pregnant right now?
No word from the producers, but Katzmann’s Instagram page hasn’t shown any full-body shots recently. That could mean anything, but…it’s worth noting.
Will there be a Labor of Love Season 2?
It’s a possibility, but it ultimately depends on how many people watch the first season—and actually like it. “I hope that we have really positive reaction to this,” Van Briesen says. “I think this is a very modern show. It’s a 2020 show.”
When is Labor of Love premiering?
Katzmann’s journey to parenthood begins May 21 at 9 p.m. on Fox.
How can I watch and stream Labor of Love on TV and online?
You can catch Labor of Love on Thursday nights on Fox. Missed the show? Fox allows you to stream its shows on your phone after you download the app, Fox Now. (You just need to enter your TV provider.) If you don’t have a TV provider, unlocked Fox shows show up to the latest five episodes of new shows.
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