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Fox Adopts "Daddy"
Apparently, The Maury Povich Show doesn't own the patent on Paternity Test TV.
Fox announced Tuesday it will ring in the new year with a heartwarming, 90-minute special in which a woman, put up for adoption as an infant, quizzes eight men in the hopes of determining which is her biological father. If she's right, she wins a reunion and $100,000. If she's wrong, she still gets to meet her father, but the guy she incorrectly pegged as her parent wins the cash.
The show's title: Who's Your Daddy?
Did somebody just go "Blargh!"
Yes, actually.
"Blargh! Talk about horrendous," wrote one person on the alt.adoption newsgroup.
Went another post: "This concept of 'entertainment' is so sick it beggars description."
Outside of the press release announcing the Jan. 3 broadcast, Fox wasn't in the mood to talk about Daddy.
Marley Greiner, for one, doesn't think the network, known for stunt shows of questionable taste such as Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?, should be treated as the bad guy.
As executive chair of Bastard Nation, a civil-rights organization for adoptees, Greiner argues that laws that prevent adoptees from finding their birth parents are the problem.
"If there weren't sealed records, you wouldn't have this show," Greiner said.
Greiner described the Who's Your Daddy? concept as both "totally audacious" and "kind of funny."
"Adoption is a very closed, sealed secretive system," Greiner said. "There's a whole mystique about adoption and this [show] is exploiting it in the most blatant way."
As it is, Greiner said there are worse shows than Who's Your Daddy?," citing the plastic surgery pageantry of The Swan, which, um, also is on Fox.
Greiner, an adoptee herself (she found her birth parents in 1980), said she'll be watching Who's Your Daddy?.
"I might be horrified with what I see," Greiner said. Appearing on the show is "something that I wouldn't do, and most people wouldn't do, but you're kind of forced into that."
Daddy producers have completed six episodes, featuring six different reunions. For now, Fox has scheduled just one installment for air. Finola Hughes, star of the Style Network's How Do I Look?, is the host. (E! Online is a division of E! Networks, which includes the Style Network.)
To Reuters, show executive producer Kevin Healey, late of NBC's $25 Million Dollar Hoax, promised Who's Your Daddy? was so emotional that "we had Teamsters on our set that were crying."
Imagine how Maury Povich feels.
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