Who's your daddy? The new Fox Game show?

[cmjb13]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;j...storyID=7165230

[Jimmy Owen]

Ya know, I had proposed that concept here some time ago (under the title "Hoosier Daddy") and got a lukewarm response and now it's a series.  I guess real producers do come here to get concepts (or more probably it's a case of two minds with the same thought.)

[CaseyAbell]

Pedro Martinez will be a celeb contestant picking from a random group of New York Yankees.

[johnnya2k3]

Hmm, don't we already have a show like this on the air? It's called "Maury"!

[bandit_bobby]

There is NO WAY I'm going to watch this.

[uncamark]

This past summer, Jeff "Dougie" Zucker at NBC said that Fox had stolen the concept from them (they supposdly had it under development).  Fox denied anything, but now...

Considering the awful ratings performance reality's had for Fox in the past six months (except for "Simple Life 2"), the imminent return of "Idol"'s probably the only thing that's saving Mike Darnell's butt right now.  This show isn't going to help matters for him.

[mmb5]

A group of us three or four years back tried to come up with the most revolting game/reality show ideas we could think of.  Whose Your Daddy? (same title) was one of them, although my version had celebrities questioning the three potential fathers while the DNA tests were being processed.  Several other of our ideas have had elements that have made it on to other shows like Russian Roulette.

Our favorite idea was to have a game where there would be an enclosed room.  Without notice, two holes open up in the ceiling.  Out of one of them falls $1,000,000.  Out of the other falls a knife.  The game ends after 10 minutes.  This is called Your $1,000,000 Chance of a Knifetime.

One of our other ideas we actually have a promo for:Promo #1 (1.3 MB AVI)

Consider it an early Christmas present.


--Mike

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[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 23 2004, 01:03 PM\']Hmm, don't we already have a show like this on the air? It's called "Maury"!

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You know...I thought I was the only one on this earth that thought the same EXACT thing about his show.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Dec 23 2004, 12:48 PM\']One of our other ideas we actually have a promo for:Promo #1 (1.3 MB AVI)

Consider it an early Christmas present.

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That would be GREAT in an afternoon strip with What's That Smell and Dumpster Hunt...

[GameShowFan]

Apparently, "Shut Up And Fish" has been permanently shelved...

[DrBear]

And there are already complaints.
Adoptive parents and national adoption organizations are going after Fox. They call it “offensive, voyeuristic and exploitative,” which only makes me think they haven’t seen much network TV lately.

[chris319]

Sure, I'll go on national TV and risk proving to the nation that I can't pick out my biological father from a group of three. That wouldn't be the least bit humiliating.

[chris319]

OK here's what you do: your "team of challengers" consists of the subject's biological father, the milkman and the postman. If the subject picks either the milkman or the postman, this tells us what?

(It tells us that some DNA testing is in order.)

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Dec 23 2004, 01:48 PM\']A group of us three or four years back tried to come up with the most revolting game/reality show ideas we could think of.  Whose Your Daddy? (same title) was one of them, although my version had celebrities questioning the three potential fathers while the DNA tests were being processed.

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I tried to imagine the most revolting idea a year or two ago.  When 20/20 had the story in which couples were being considered as prospective parents for a kid (or maybe a pair of siblings), I thought it sounded like a revolting reality show, but I topped it by reversing the roles:  Six to twelve kids (picture one of those Mexican paintings) audition to be adopted by a couple.  Just to make it really "poignant," the couple chooses on a live broadcast a few days before Christmas.  Newt Gingrich could host.

That's the worst that I could actually believe them doing.  Two others are so far beyond the pale that even I would be surprised:  One is basically Running Man;  the other has a bunch of people who need the same organ and are compatible for the same one.

[AZAndrewG]

Okay, this is one where I have to add my two cents worth.

I happen to have two adopted sisters (they were adopted from China).  For any network to promote and air a show that exploits the emotions of an adopted child is cruel and revolting.  I'm sure when my sisters get older (they're currently 8 and 6), they'll want to find out more about who their biological parents are, and unfortunately, we will never know who they are, since they were both abandoned shortly after birth.

I have to take the side of the adoptive parents and the national adoption organizations on this one.  Shame all over FOX for diving to the depths of taste once again for the sake of ratings and the all-mighty dollar.  If NewsCorp had any cojones whatsoever, it would immediately fire Mike Darnell.  He's nothing but a low-life scumbag as far as I'm concerned for even greenlighting this "show."

Andrew M. Greenstein