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N.C. station refuses to air 'Who's Your Daddy?' Tuesday, January 4, 2005

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 12:33 PM

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NEW YORK (AP) — After protests from adoption advocates, a Fox affiliate in North Carolina chose not to air Monday's Who's Your Daddy? special, where an adoptive daughter tried to guess the identity of her birth father for a $100,000 prize.

So far, WRAZ-TV in Raleigh-Durham is the only one of 182 Fox station to respond to a plea from the National Council for Adoption that they not air the reality special, which the council said "would exploit the sensitive emotions of adoption."

The special features a woman and her birth father, who were both involved in simultaneous searches for one another. He was one of eight potential dads presented to her, and the woman won the money if she pinpointed him. If she was wrong, the impostor whom she chose would win a prize.

Producers said the pretaped special was a "positive experience" for both the woman and her father, and urged viewers not to prejudge it.

"The special was thoroughly vetted by our standards and practices department to ensure that it was appropriate for broadcast," said Scott Grogin, Fox spokesman. "However, any network affiliate that feels the programming may be inappropriate for their individual market has the right to preempt the schedule.

WRAZ-TV will instead air an independently produced film, I Have Roots and Branches ... Personal Reflections on Adoption, a film produced by a woman with an adopted child who interviewed adoptive families about their experiences.

Tommy Schenck, the station's vice president and general manager, did not immediately return a call for comment. In a statement, he called the replacement special "enlightening and heartwarming" and "appropriate family viewing."

Another station manager who is airing the show said he had received three e-mails complaining about it. Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB-TV in Louisville, Kentucky, said the network didn't make the show available for him to see in advance and he didn't want to judge it sight unseen.

"I think it's just another one in a long line of tasteless Fox shows," Lamb said. "How do you differentiate one from another anymore?"

Thomas Atwood, president of the National Council for Adoption, said he believed his campaign to encourage Fox stations not to air it lost momentum because of the holidays.

"It exploits the sensitive emotions of adoption," Atwood said. "it trivializes them. Adoption is a very personal, meaningful experience and it should not be commercialized like this."

The Fox Television Studios has filmed six separate Who's Your Daddy? shows, but the network has not yet scheduled any of the others to air.

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 01:01 PM

Jesus Christ... I don't usually have much sympathy with the Moral Outrage Brigade, but in this case I can't help feeling they have a point.
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?

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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 01:02 PM

I bet they are only going to show the one where the child picked right. It seems like it would just be anti-climactic otherwise.

WOMAN: "Yes... Bob. I'm sure Bob is my dad. We just have so much in common.. (tears up) He's the family I never knew!"
HOST: "...Ooh. Sorry, you guessed wrong. It was Steve."
WOMAN: "Steve?!!"
BOB: "Ha ha! I AM THE CHAMPION! In your FACE, woman I have no relationship to!"
WOMAN: "But... I felt so close to you!"
BOB: "I am so going to buy a boat with this money."

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 01:51 PM

In their next great reality show FOX will have actors date people for years, meet their families, propose to them, and then reveal the stunt at the altar on their wedding days! A good time will be had by all!

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 03:39 PM

Reality TV takes us another step into the screaming abyss. Methinks we're not going to see any sign of this stopping until we have "The Men-On-A-Toilet Show"...
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Posted 04 January 2005 - 04:07 PM

i have a reality tv show for them:
we round up all the people that thought up these crap reality tv shows instead of thinking up something worth wasting our time to watch. put them in a house for a few months and at the end of each week the public vote for who should be shot until theres only 3 left then we vote for who should be let out alive

and then we just shoot the last one for the fun of it and give the prize money to help the people that are dieing and really need more then just their own excrimate

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 04:25 PM

Actually I've been watching this really funny reality tv show about an idiot who takes over a big country and then kills everyone. It comes on CNN and the ten oclock news all the time and it's absolutely hysterical to see how people believe everything he says and don't know they're being fooled and none of this is real. People actually believe that something like that could happen! Why it's hillarious!

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Posted 04 January 2005 - 06:31 PM

"Worth wasting our time to watch"?
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Posted 05 January 2005 - 07:24 AM

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WRAZ-TV will instead air an independently produced film, I Have Roots and Branches ...

Sounds like porn to me.
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Posted 05 January 2005 - 03:00 PM

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Reality TV takes us another step into the screaming abyss. Methinks we're not going to see any sign of this stopping until we have "The Men-On-A-Toilet Show"...

What makes you think it will stop there?
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Posted 05 January 2005 - 04:57 PM

Well, here's hoping we don't go far as "Make Your Own Snuff Movie Live!"

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Posted 06 January 2005 - 07:17 PM

after having seen shows where couples are broken up by being drowned on infidelity island, several men are trying to get the one woman for marrage, several women are after one man for marrage, several english blokes are after one woman who has a cock but they don't know, millions of versions of big brother, pop star wannabes paraded to be picked to be the next pepsi spokes person, job interviews, fucknuckles not getting along on an island, and even my own friends brain surgery.... (although that was fun, in the unedited version he recieved a peice of elastic strap comes loose and slaps him in the brain)

can I just say...

REALITY TV SUCK ASS
IGNORE IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY!!!
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Posted 07 January 2005 - 05:05 AM

That'd be ideal, but its like a clown made of jelly. It keeps bouncing round and assuming new shapes in an attempt to make you look at it...
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Posted 07 January 2005 - 08:52 PM

I was listening to a talk show today and they happened to be talking about censorship. A woman called to say that she was potty training her child and had gone to the library to find a book on the subject to help her and her child. She found a book that seemed to be good, but while thumbing thru it found many drawings with magic marker over the child's butt. When she confronted the librarian to report the vandalism, she was told that it wasn't vandals, but the library staff who had done it. Seems that they felt the drawings might offend people. You're potty training a child for christ sakes.
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Posted 08 January 2005 - 03:36 PM

Yes, I would like to know when exactly we became a nation of 9 year olds.
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