ABC explores variations of new ‘Wife Swap’

Got a spouse, child, boss, friend, car, house, pair of bowling shoes, used book or lawn mower that you want to try to exchange for a better model?

Chances are good that given enough time, ABC will have a swapping show just for you.

Even though the network’s “Wife Swap” — in which mothers from two very different families temporarily trade places — won’t air until fall, it has already greenlighted pilots for such spinoffs as “Husband Swap” and “Boss Swap.”

ABC is attempting to swiftly transform “Swap” into the kind of renewable franchise that it already has with “Extreme Makeover” and “Extreme Makeover: Housing Edition,” and “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.”

“I think it will do well because it’s rare to have a reality show on TV taking place in the home or workplace; they mostly use not a real environment as a setting, like a mansion or an exotic location,” the show’s executive producer, Stephen Lambert, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Whatever ABC tries to swap, Fox may be quick to follow suit. Fox has fast-tracked “Trading Spouses,” a copycat reality series that the network hopes to get out in late summer, before the scheduled debut of “Wife Swap” on Sept. 29.