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Q: What happened to the guilty-pleasure reality show "The Moment of Truth?" It seemed to be doing well and had all kinds of promises for the upcoming season, but then seemingly disappeared.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Disappeared is pretty much exactly what it did.

“Hollywood Reporter” scribe James Hibberd described this one as being in "a scheduling twilight zone: neither declared dead nor returning."

It's a fate that many shows meet, especially game shows whose syndication-friendly nature make their schedules a little more confusing and less dependable than their scripted counterparts.

"The Moment of Truth" posted good numbers when it premiered during the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, but when facing new scripted competition after the strike ended a few weeks later, its ratings floundered.

It did make it most of the way through two seasons, though the last episode it aired, on Aug. 8, 2009, was not the last one shot. There are reportedly a few more in the can that Fox never released.

The series submitted contestants to a polygraph test and posed tough, often uncomfortable, questions to them in front of a live audience.

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