SO many reality shows are on the schedule this summer that they’re all in danger of blurring into one.

Someday, that will no doubt happen. Someone will come up with a reality show incorporating parts of every single reality show that came before it.

A description would go something like this: Cameras capture the antics of a group of young singles wearing masks, who are thought to be millionaires but aren’t really, as they endure various hardships and participate in a series of physical tests on a fast-paced trip around the world with the goal of finding a mate and marrying him or her on national TV at the home of an eccentric Hollywood celebrity who hasn’t worked steadily in a while.

This week, we’ll see the premieres of a number of summer reality shows with as much potential to confuse as to entertain.

Chief among these are “Paradise Hotel” and “Anything for Love” on Fox. Nothing is wrong with watching and enjoying these lighter-than-air summer reality shows. That’s why elsewhere on these pages we’re recommending that you check them out.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not permitted to be puzzled over them.

With its exotic locale in a tropical resort and its emphasis on young singles in bathing suits all vying to pair off, “Paradise Hotel” will remind some viewers of “Temptation Island,” a show that was so tasteless I actually liked it some years back, and “Love Cruise,” which was so ill-fated that it was first scheduled to premiere on 9/11/2001.

In any case, the premise behind “Paradise Hotel” – roughly a competition among singles to remain at the resort rather than be kicked out – is so vague that Fox hasn’t even decided yet what the goal of the show is.

And “Anything for Love” is just as difficult to explain. This show seems to want to test the premise that some people will do anything to win someone else’s heart, even if it means eating worms or bungee-jumping naked.

The show sounds as if it’s going to take more effort on the part of viewers than they might be willing to expend for a summer series.

Speaking of effort, I’ve tried several times to play along with Chuck Woolery’s game show “Lingo” on the Game Show Network, but the hows and whys of that show continue to elude me.

Chuck’s also a reality-TV star this summer on a show in which cameras follow him around while he lives his boring life.

What’s the point of that? I’m not sure, but if I tire of the Woolerys, I can always visit Gary Busey on Comedy Central.