The 'Outsiders' get in on the inn business

Take a bad-boy hip-hopper, a California popster and Marcia Brady, and plop them down in East Tennessee to run a B&B.

That's the fish-out-of-water premise of Outsiders Inn, a reality TV series starring Bobby Brown, Carnie Wilson and former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick, premiering tonight (9 ET/PT) on Country Music Television. It's reminiscent of a now-defunct offering on the Oxygen network: Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott playing B&B keepers on Tori & Dean: Inn Love.

The Outsiders premise: McCormick leases the real-life Christopher Place Bed and Breakfast Resort in rural Cocke County near Newport, Tenn. She enlists former Gone Country castmates Brown and Wilson to help her -- Brown as entertainment director, Wilson as chef.

"I've always dreamed of running a bed-and-breakfast," McCormick says from her California home after taping wrapped.

There was skepticism whether ...