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Deion Sanders and his wife Pilar have joined the reality TV movement. Their show, Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love, airs Tuesdays at 10:30 on The Oxygen Channel. This gives fans a chance to see what Prime Time is like now that he's out of the game, and it also gave us a chance to interview Sanders himself.

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Crave Online: Were you a guy who would watch Oxygen Channel before this?

Deion Sanders: Most definitely. First of all, I never want to be on an episode of Snapped. Let's get that straight. I never want to be on an episode of Snapped and I really do love it. And Sue Johanson is off the chain. I love her. And the Bad Girls Club is one of the best shows placed on television. I definitely was a fan beforehand.

Crave Online: Did you worry about the cameras negatively impacting your family, like some reality stars have found?

Deion Sanders: Well, we already argue at least once a week out of the month, so nothing can really focus more attention on that. But we are who we are. I don't think any of these shows that have been on that have suffered really have Christian values and have their faith as the first and foremost thing that coupled this relationship, that founded this relationship. We do a wonderful job. We're realists and we're not opportunists. Unlike some couples, we're not taking this show as an opportunity to launch into something else. We're doing this really to substantiate the claim that there are many African American families that live properly and not necessarily argumentative and in disarray and total chaos. So we're not using this show as a stepping stone into launching into something else and I think many other people that have partaken in the reality form, they've done that as a means.

Crave Online: How did the idea of the show come about, did you pitch them or they pitch you?

Deion Sanders: I pitched them. We were just sitting home watching. We're really reality fans and we watch a lot of television, having five kids. Therefore, just seeing nothing of the sort and thinking back to some of the shows that we loved.

Crave Online: Was it a relief when they stopped filming you after three months?

Deion Sanders: It's not bad because you're on a schedule. You know you're going to shoot five days a week probably 10 hours a day. So it wasn't bad at all. We had a wonderful crew, a wonderful crew who became somewhat of a family. My hat's off to Oxygen for blessing us with all the resources that we needed to complete a show and put a great product on television.

Crave Online: Have you seen the show yourself?

Crave Online: Did you have any issues over the editing?

Deion Sanders: I'm executive producer. The problem we had oftentimes was it's hard to get everything in 22 minutes. We had so much good stuff. Something that hits the floor of the cutting board is some good stuff. That was the problem. It wasn't a problem with not enough or we can't put that on television. Oxygen really gave us the liberty to do what we needed to do and accomplish what we need to accomplish. But so many funny and humorous scenes will never make the show because of the length.