Fox Says It Needs to Lay Off Reality TV

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

LOS ANGELES - The sagging Fox network's chief executive admitted Monday it had leaned too heavily on reality programming this TV season, including the disastrous "Who's Your Daddy?"

Fox has been caught on the wrong side of audience taste in the past few months. Scripted series like ABC's Golden Globe-winning "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are hot, while viewers seem to have little patience for new reality series.

There were others, but Fox's problems were symbolized by "Who's Your Daddy?," the Jan. 3 show where an adopted daughter picked her birth father out of eight strangers and won a $100,000 prize.

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Something I'm sure Ken will agree to.

[Shawn]

It's sort of sad when Fox is the first network to realize the reality shite needs to be tuned down though.

Of course they made the worst.

"Who wants to contract gonorrhea?"
"Sibling Strike - He who strikes last inherits the most!"

[Wolfie]

"Who wants to contract gonorrhea?"

Wasn't that Temptation Island?

[DudeAsInCool]

They oughta lay off Fox News, too, while they are at it

[slum_goddess]

Wasn't that Temptation Island?

in other news, i ain't holding my breath for fox to lay off reality programming. someone tell me if this happens or not cause thankfully, i won't know.

[Ken]

Something I'm sure Ken will agree to.

Sure I do, but I’m not the ring-leader of anti-reality television/anti-Fox.

There are many like myself in that regard.

Edited January 19, 2005 by Ken