NBC developing British series The Baby Borrowers

A six-episode commitment is in place for The Baby Borrowers, a new reality series for NBC in which teenage couples are taken through the gauntlet of parenthood in just one month, during which they must care for a baby, then a toddler, then a pre-teen, and finally, grandparents. The new series is based on the popular British series of the same name, and the five couples featured on the show will be supervised at all times. Otherwise, the show would be called something like, Abandoned Babies, which doesn't exactly sell commercial time.

Ostensibly, the show is supposed to demonstrate to the couples how difficult it is to raise children, and in the case of the "pre-teens," they can see reflections of their own relationships with their parents. After each segment is finished, the babies, tweens and elderly people are driven out to the middle of the desert and left to fend for themselves.

Okay, I made up that last part, though it would make the show more fun to watch. Also, they could have one couple in each episode receive a non-human baby: first a lion cub, then an adolescent lion, and finally a full-grown one, just to mix things up and make it interesting.