REALITY CONCEPT BECOMES SPACE CASE.(new reality shows scheduled for production)(Brief Article)

HOLLYWOOD Network TV's infatuation with all things nonfiction keeps getting stranger.

As they scramble to find the next "Survivor"-like phenom, webheads are snapping up increasingly out-there formats -- and paying through the nose for the right. Among the latest examples:

* As first reported by Daily Variety, NBC last week agreed to shell out nearly $40 million for the rights to "Destination Mir," an ambitious reality skein that will launch an everyday American into space for a rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir.

Into the void

Show, from "Survivor" exec producer Mark Burnett, will follow a group of would-be cosmonauts from space …