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New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« on: Dec 16^th, 2004, 8:53pm »

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New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
Idea meets with protests from adoption community
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Posted: 2:24 PM EST (1924 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Fox network said Tuesday it will air a special next month, "Who's Your Daddy?", where a daughter given up for adoption as an infant attempts to guess the identity of her birth father for a $100,000 prize.

Activists in the adoption community immediately attacked the special, which will air for 90 minutes on January 3.

"This is really perverse," said Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan P. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a research and policy organization. "It takes a deeply personal and important experience and turns it into a money-grubbing game show. I think it is despicable."

A Fox network spokesman would not comment on the special, referring all calls to the producers, who said people shouldn't judge before watching.

"I find it curious that people are calling it that without having seen an episode," said Scott Hallock, one of three executive producers of the series for the Fox Television Studios. "You might get the impression from the title that it is somehow salacious or exploitive. But nothing could be further from the truth."

The woman who is the focus of the show, not identified by Fox, and her birth father were both involved in simultaneous searches for each other.

Her natural dad will be one of eight men presented to her, all claiming to be her father. She will be given opportunities to observe and interview the men to narrow the field, the network announced.

If she correctly guesses which man is her father, the woman can win as much as $100,000. If she is incorrect, the imposter that she chose will win the money, Fox said.

Either way, the special will end with the father and daughter being reunited.

Joseph Kroll, executive director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children, called the idea "repulsive." He said his own 29-year-old daughter is searching for her birth father.

"If someone were to try doing that to my daughter, what I consider to be abuse, I would not behave appropriately," Kroll said.

Pertman, a former Boston Globe reporter and author of the book "Adoption Nation," predicted the television show would denigrate the experiences of families who have gone through adoption.

"It really is sort of one-stop shopping for insulting millions of people, maybe tens of millions," he said.

Producers have already filmed six "Who's Your Daddy?" episodes, although Fox has only scheduled one of them for air at this point. Hallock said participants were sought through ads that made it clear the solicitation was part of a TV production.

Viewers are invited to play the game along with the adoptive daughter; the father's real identity will not be made clear until the end of the show.

All the participants felt it was a positive experience, said Kevin Healey, another executive producer.

"Our main focus was to see that it would be a positive experience and we were determined not to go forward with it if that was not the case," Healey said.

Fox had been known to be working on the show for months. This past summer, in a public tiff with Fox over competing boxing reality shows, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker revealed Fox was working on the concept. Angry that Zucker had discussed their internal plans, Fox executives wouldn't comment on it.

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #1 on: Dec 16^th, 2004, 8:54pm »

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This does seem pretty repulsive...

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #2 on: Dec 17^th, 2004, 2:21pm »

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yes, this is nothing more than playing with people's emotions for entertainment. I think its sad.

Maybe some good will come of it, but i think a lot of people are going to be hurt

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #3 on: Dec 20^th, 2004, 9:00am »

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I can't imagine anyone participating in a show like this. Maybe the girl looking for her father could conceivably take part - but who wants a father who is willing to play at this game... and even worse, what sort of losers would participate as the imposters - pretending to be the father of someone who is trying to reunite with a family member? The whole concept is sick.

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #4 on: Dec 27^th, 2004, 9:41pm »

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Ugh. Why would anyone want to participate in this?

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #5 on: Dec 28^th, 2004, 11:22am »

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I'm sure the show was pitched to the contestants by a champion used car salesman... :deal:

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Affiliate dumps Fox's 'Daddy'
Show's premise offended adoption groups
Monday, January 3, 2005 Posted: 11:32 AM EST (1632 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- At least one Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliate has balked at airing Monday night's 90-minute special "Who's Your Daddy," which has raised the ire of adoption advocacy groups for a premise that revolves around an adopted woman trying to pick her biological father from a group of eight candidates.

WRAZ-TV (Fox 50) in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, has yanked "Daddy" and instead will air a documentary, "I Have Roots and Branches: Personal Reflections on Adoption," in the 8-9:30 p.m. EST block slated for "Daddy."

"We are proud to share this enlightening and heartwarming program, both as informative, appropriate family viewing, and as a public service as well," FOX 50 VP and General Manager Tommy Schenck said on the Web site of the station's Capitol Broadcasting Co. parent.

WRAZ executives could not be reached for additional comment during the New Year's holiday weekend, but a promo blurb for the telecast of "Roots and Branches" was prominently featured on the station's Web site.

Fox and News Corp. executives have been catching flak from adoption advocates and many other critics since it formally announced the scheduling of "Daddy" last month.

The show challenges a woman who was adopted as an infant to pick her father from a group of eight men for a $100,000 prize. If the woman picks the right man, she wins the $100,000, but if not the impostor gets the money. Fox has shot a total of six episodes of "Daddy" but so far has scheduled only one airing as a special.

The Fort Worth-based Gladney Center for Adoption decried the show's premise, calling it "reprehensible" and "offensive."

The New York-based Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute last week called "Daddy" "insensitive and harmful" and demanded an "urgent meeting" with senior Fox executives.

Fox reps have stressed that despite the show's provocative title, all of the people featured in "Daddy" were willing participants and that regardless of the competitive element, all of the women are reunited with their biological fathers as a result of their participation in the show.

In response to WRAZ's decision to dump "Daddy," Fox noted that the special had been "thoroughly vetted" by the network's standards and practices department.

"However, any network affiliate that feels the programming may be inappropriate for their individual market has the right to pre-empt the special," Fox said in a statement.

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #7 on: Jan 3^rd, 2005, 7:40pm »

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Probably all of the men are actors. If I wanted to meet my Daddy, I would do it, anyplace, anytime, anywhere, whatever it took! It may sound weird and repulsive to some of us, but we aren't walking in her shoes.
Good Luck to her, I do hope she isn't disappointed in the long run.

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Re: New Fox show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K
« Reply #8 on: Jan 4^th, 2005, 10:26am »

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I caught the tale end of this and only because of channel surfing

Pure drivel....it was sooo exploitative of her emotions and her families emotions,

also it seemed VERY scripted to me. Glad I didn't watch the whole thing though. God can you imagine the mental anguish if she had picked the wrong guy??

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