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01-18-2005, 12:26 AM
Source: Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com)
By DAVID BAUDER
Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:30 PM ET
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.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=3&u=/ap/20050118/ap_en_tv/fox_s_fall).
By DAVID BAUDER
Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:30 PM ET
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.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=3&u=/ap/20050118/ap_en_tv/fox_s_fall).