One night's worth of reality TV

NEW YORK -- Actress Kim Coles got the boot, along with 10 handsome bachelors and four star-struck performers. All were casualties on the same night as a trio of new series swelled the ranks of "reality TV."\nOn Wednesday night, viewers could watch the live premiere of "Star Search," CBS' version of the Fox smash "American Idol" with an over-revved Arsenio Hall presiding and a $100,000 grand prize at stake.\nThirteen-year-old Meaghan Markert beat out a moppet rapper with her rendition of "Ave Maria." Thus did little Eric Kidd get the hook, along with a model, a comedian and a singer.\nLater, on ABC, viewers could see seven contenders loosely billed as celebrities (including actor Stephen Baldwin and supermodel Frederique) try to flush out the "double agent" infiltrating the group on "Celebrity Mole Hawaii." The first "victim" of the unknown mole: former "Living Single" star Coles, sent packing at the end of the hour.\nIn between, ABC unveiled "The Bachelorette," which, turning the tables on its successful "Bachelor" predecessors, turned 29-year-old Trista Rehn loose to choose her dream man from 25 eager suitors. A pediatric physical therapist from Miami, Rehn was jilted last April by Alex Michel, the original "Bachelor."\nBy hour's end, the bachelorette had offered boutonnieres to the 15 men who made her first cut. Then she started to cry as the other 10 began to take their leave.\n"It really hurt my heart to think that I could be making someone else sad," she said later.\nWednesday's shows premiered in a week that on Thursday ushered in the WB's "The Surreal Life," which packs a house in Hollywood with celebrity has-beens like Corey Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis, then invites them to get on one another's nerves.\nAlso Thursday, the WB repeats the debut of its Sunday reality series, "High School Reunion," which gathers 17 classmates from a decade ago for two steamy weeks in Hawaii.\nAnd don't forget Fox's new hit "Joe Millionaire," which blends a "Bachelor-like" mating game with a wicked joke: the 20 beautiful rivals for Evan Marriott's love have no idea he's a $19,000-a-year construction worker, rather than the fabulously wealthy heir he pretends to be.\nBut this is no joke: "Joe Millionaire" attracted a huge 18.6 million viewers for its premiere Monday night.