The show is taped mostly in North Texas around the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex as well as the Greater Houston area. As of October 2008, Cheaters has started airing its ninth season of first-run episodes.
A typical 30-minute Cheaters episode depicts a single complainant's case. The show's complainants can be either married or long-term significant others, and have also included same-sex couples. It begins with a brief interview of the complainant, detailing how the complainant met their partner and what has led them to believe that the partner is cheating. Next, narrator Robert Magruder describes the progress of the investigation
of the partner (referred to as "the suspect" during the episode), including surveillance footage of the suspect's actions recorded by the show's private investigators.
When the investigation turns up enough evidence of the suspect's infidelity, the show enters its second segment, "the confrontation." The host meets with the complainant and shows them the evidence that has been collected; graphic footage from the investigators—for example, the suspect and their paramour engaged in a sexual act—is shown uncensored to the complainant but is shown digitally blurred during the episode. This meeting takes place at a time when the suspect and their paramour are being observed together elsewhere; the intent is to allow the complainant to catch the suspect in the act of infidelity. The host, the complainant, and a large group of camera and sound operators, drivers and bodyguards seek out and confront the alleged cheater. The confrontation often takes place in public, with the complainant and host both attempting to get an explanation out of the suspect for their behavior. Such encounters generally include verbal arguments and, occasionally, violence between the parties; the show's bodyguards are on-hand to protect any party to the confrontation.
The final segment, "the conclusion," presents parting thoughts from the complainant, the suspect and their paramour as they depart the scene of the confrontation. Next, updates from previous cases, including interviews from cheaters and their paramours, are presented. Lastly, the narrator describes what became of the complainant, the suspect and the paramour after the show.
When the investigation turns up enough evidence of the suspect's infidelity, the show enters its second segment, "the confrontation." The host meets with the complainant and shows them the evidence that has been collected; graphic footage from the investigators—for example, the suspect and their paramour engaged in a sexual act—is shown uncensored to the complainant but is shown digitally blurred during the episode. This meeting takes place at a time when the suspect and their paramour are being observed together elsewhere; the intent is to allow the complainant to catch the suspect in the act of infidelity. The host, the complainant, and a large group of camera and sound operators, drivers and bodyguards seek out and confront the alleged cheater. The confrontation often takes place in public, with the complainant and host both attempting to get an explanation out of the suspect for their behavior. Such encounters generally include verbal arguments and, occasionally, violence between the parties; the show's bodyguards are on-hand to protect any party to the confrontation.
The final segment, "the conclusion," presents parting thoughts from the complainant, the suspect and their paramour as they depart the scene of the confrontation. Next, updates from previous cases, including interviews from cheaters and their paramours, are presented. Lastly, the narrator describes what became of the complainant, the suspect and the paramour after the show.
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