Fox Reality Offers to Buy Yanked ABC Series:
The new Fox Reality cable channel has offered to buy ABC’s Welcome to the Neighborhood, the reality series in which in which a group of seven families from untraditional backgrounds were to vie for a four-bedroom home in an Austin, TX suburb. The judges were to be the white, Christian neighbors living on the cul-de-sac where the house is located. ABC yanked the show after it was attacked by such groups as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Fair Housing Alliance. But Fox Reality CEO David Lyle told today’s (Wednesday) New York Daily News that he had made an offer to ABC to air the series because he found it “really quite gripping.” However, he told the newspaper, “So far they haven’t taken us up on our kind offer.”
Yes, very kind. But they were apparently legal problems about retitling it The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.