If you'd told me five years ago that a show about cooking could be exciting, I wouldn't have believed you — but, of course, that was before I became aware of Top Chef. And despite all the jokes about watching paint dry, Work of Art was one of the most interesting of the new competitive reality shows.

But flower arranging? Is there really a way to make that exciting?

Logo (which owns AfterElton.com) hopes so, given that their latest offering, airing tonight at 11 PM (following the much-hyped The A-List), is a reality show about a group of, well, not florists, natch, but floral designers.

Why is The Arrangement running on the "gay" network? Truthfully, I'm not sure. Yes, it's a huge stereotype that a lot of florists are gay, and a number of the contestants here probably are too. But sexuality has almost nothing to do with the premiere episode, made available for review by the network.

In fact, they absolutely do make floral design pretty interesting. Eager to quickly entice viewers, the show's very first challenge involves arranging flowers and sushi on the nearly-naked bodies of hot models.

But the much more interesting question is whether the show will do for floral design what Top Chef did for cooking — or, for that matter, what RuPaul's Drag Race did for drag — and show us the genuine artistry involved with the craft here. It seems pretty clear that that's the intention. Indeed, the show seems to have two kinds of designers: those who arrange

flowers (with panache!), and those who see flower-arrangements as pieces

of literal temporary "art."

Not surprisingly, the (presumably) straight women lean toward the former category, and the (presumably) gay men lean toward the latter.

If the show has a flaw, it's that we've seen all this before — many, many times — and The Arrangement does nothing to shake things up. We have the initial challenge, followed by the elimination challenge, the testimonials, the personality clashes, the (overly?) critical judges, and so on.

The Arrangement also has the quirky, outrageous, and prickly personalities which are, of course, the draw to any show like this. Guillermo (left) is the hot Argentinian (who right away gets in a big conflict with another contestant); Anil is the shrewd, manipulative one; Jenny is the quirky one (she "talks" to flowers); and Russ is almost certainly there to add gender-related conflict (he's a somewhat clueless openly straight man who says he wants to bring "masculinity" back to flowers).

I confess to being somewhat underwhelmed by host Gigi Levangie Grazer (author of The Starter Wife), who seems nervous and who makes a reasonably large faux-pas midway through the episode when she says she's never heard "men" talk about flowers before — which prompts a very funny quip from mentor-judge Eric Buterbaugh (definitely not the cuddly, supportive Tim Gunn type), who says to her, simply, "Bitch."

The show also manages another pretty funny/interesting aspect, which is the three-minute "lipsynch for your life"-type bit near the end of the show. Three minutes to put together a whole arrangement? But the results in the first episode are actually better than you'd expect (which may have disappointed the producers of the show!).

Sure, this show may not be breaking any new "reality show" ground, but if flowers (or competitive reality shows in general) are your thing, I can't imagine you'll be disappointed by The Arrangement.

Check out red carpet interviews from The Arrangment's LA premiere.