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JT, IS THAT YOU CALLING?

AND in the role of Ashton Kutcher is Justin Tim berlake!

Yes, Timberlake has, like Kutcher, jumped into the reality TV game as executive producer with his own well, reality TV game show — of sorts.

The Phone” is an hour-long show in which four incredibly good looking 20-something strangers linked by one fact — at some point, all had answered ads to be part of a reality show — are thrown together.

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They are all called by a man called “the Operator” — played by Emmett J. Scanlan, an equally incredibly good looking Irish actor — and told that they have been chosen as contestants.

The four strangers at four separate locations are then immediately thrust into their own action/adventure movie in which they must do things like stop a mad bomber in order to win $50,000.

The first participants are a 22-year old security guard named Joel, a 23-year old photographer named Danielle, a 23-year old student, Del Vaughan, and a 23-year old pastry chef, Meena. They are split into two teams with Joel and Meena on one team and Danielle and Del Vaughan on the opposing side.

Right off, a car explodes in front of them. I’m not kidding. I told you it was an action movie.

Yes, it gets confusing. And, for the first 20 minutes, it’s also boring as the perfectly perfect young women strip down to their thongs and pull on wetsuits to find clues on a fishing boat.

The winners of that “challenge” get $10,000 and the other team is eliminated.

And then suddenly it all changes and “The Phone” becomes seat-of-your-lowriders scary as one person in the remaining team (who is afraid of heights) is asked to crawl out on the outer rim of Seattle’s Space Needle — which is, like, 500 feet in the air — to fetch four clues glued to the underside of the rim. Terrifying.

Then the other teammate is made to climb even higher up skinny rungs to an antenna on the very top to fetch the last clue.

Sure, each has a small harness on, but are you kidding me?

In future episodes other teams will jump from planes, travel in a single-engine aircraft that seems to have lost its engines, withstand car crashes and explosions as they try to thwart terrorists, the Mob and other assorted horrors as dictated by “The Operator.”

“The Phone’s” more fun than your average cell phone conversation that’s for sure — especially for the lucky (and terrified) gamers who get called.