Who's Your Daddy??

[RICHARD]

The FOX network has come up with another winner.....


A show will take a woman who was given up for adoption
trying to find her father from among 8-10 men...

PLEASE!!!

[slick]

That sounds like a Maury show to me....

[christa]

PLEASE tell me you're joking! This is getting SICK!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by christa
PLEASE tell me you're joking! This is getting SICK!

NOPE!

Honest!!!! This is an old article but they announced the show thos morning on a local radio station.
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Call It Re-Reality TV

By Lisa de Moraes
Sunday, July 11, 2004; Page D01


LOS ANGELES, July 10

Fox is developing a reality series called "Who's My Daddy," in which a young woman will try to figure out which of 16 men is actually her father, industry insiders say.



Another Fox reality show in secret development, with the working title of "Big Shot," is a sort of "Joe Schmo" meets "The Apprentice": a bunch of young ambitious corporate sharks think they're competing to land a big job with a Donald Trump type, only he turns out to be a fraud.

News of these two projects spread on Saturday among The Reporters Who Cover Television when Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Universal Television Group, had his at-bat during Summer TV Press Tour 2004.

Zucker was waxing peevish about the latest trend in reality series programming -- ripping off series before they even debut. Ripping off hot reality series after they debut is a time-honored television tradition. But this new "reality piracy," as the trades have dubbed it, is running rampant in Hollywood, and ever at the forefront of new TV trends, the Fox network appears to be leading the charge.

When NBC announced a new boxing series from Mark Burnett called "The Contender" for its fall schedule, Fox followed by announcing it would put an Oscar De La Hoya boxing series, "The Next Great Champ," on the air before NBC's. Burnett retaliated by announcing he was developing a rock version of Fox's "American Idol," in which he searches for the next lead singer for the '80s band INXS, which Burnett subsequently sold to CBS. NBC, meanwhile, retaliated by announcing a new David E. Kelley-produced legal reality series soon after Fox announced it was developing a legal reality series called "The Partner," though NBC's series won't debut before Fox's, and the two shows actually aren't too similar in detail.

Fox next targeted ABC, which had announced plans for "Wife Swap," to debut in late September, in which two very different families trade moms for two weeks. Fox's version, "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mom," is expected to debut well in advance of ABC's show.

"Quite frankly, [Fox] used to be innovators and now they're imitators," Zucker told critics feelingly. He added, "It's having no impact on us -- if we really were concerned about their boxing show, we would rush our boxing show on and beat theirs. . . . But it's just bad for the business and it's bad for everybody and I don't think that all is fair in love and television."

Right around then, Zucker added, "We happen to know what Fox's two secret [reality] shows are, but I'm not going on. . . . I wouldn't do that."

"Why don't you tell us what they are and we'll take it from there?" one critic responded.

"Let's see how the rest of this session goes and we'll talk at the end. But they have two," Zucker said.

The talk turned to this and that until one critic, grabbing a mike, hollered: "Jeff . . . I think I speak for everyone in the room when I say that the orange tie, blue shirt -- you're probably the most fashionable executive we've seen in years up there onstage. And do you suppose you could tell us the name of those two Fox shows?"

And then he did. At least "Who's My Daddy." He said he couldn't remember the other one (but he did later).

A Fox rep, contacted Saturday on his way to Dodger Stadium, said the network would not comment on its development plans.

[sammy101]

yes that is true!my goodness what has reality television gotten into.that is ridiculous

[KYS]

I will admit I enjoy some of these reality shows,
but when I saw the advertisement
for Who's Your Daddy,
I thought it was in bad taste.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by KYS
I will admit I enjoy some of these reality shows,
but when I saw the advertisement
for Who's Your Daddy,
I thought it was in bad taste.

I don't mind the challenge (Survivor) games, but I agree.
Making light of leaving your kids behind for prizes and cash seems a little trashy...

And what about the mothers?

Who's Your Momma?

[moosmom]

I am SO sick of these reality shows I could hurl!!! They're cruel and just plain stupid. I hope they are just a fad and will go away soon.

[smokey the elder]

It's a FOX product; what do you expect??

[CalliesMom]

I don't get why these shows are still on the air..I liked Survivor but some of these are ridiculous and it seems that's all that is on now adays. Doesn't the TV stations have anything better to put on television? UGH!

[wolflady]

Originally posted by moosmom
I am SO sick of these reality shows I could hurl!!! They're cruel and just plain stupid. I hope they are just a fad and will go away soon.

Me too!! I guess the only good thing about these darn reality shows, is that I have more time to do other things since I'm watching less and less TV! I'm just not into all of this "white trash" TV. I'm sick of it...ugh!

Plus, they take perfectly good and interesting shows off the air...and put more garbage on! FOX really should rethink this, because they just lost a customer IMO. Last year, FOX had a show called Tru Calling on that I didn't discover until about halfway through the season...but it was an interesting show. Of course, I was so disappointed to see that they shelved it...and now they're putting on MORE reality shows Ugh Ugh Ugh!

[lizzielou742]

I saw a commercial for this while I was watching the O.C. last night!!! What a stupid idea.

[Tonya]

That's ridiculous!