FOX airs "American Pie 2" in place of "Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay" tonight

[Paragon]

Fox cancels 'Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay' reality special
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=2588

Is it just us, or are Fox's cancellation announcements more interesting than its upcoming schedule (save for The Casino)?

Reuters reports that Fox has decided to cancel the planned June 7 telecast of Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay, a two-hour special in which two straight men competed for $50,000 by trying to pass themselves off as homosexuals to (1) their friends, (2) their families and (3) complete strangers for a week. At the end of the week, a panel of gay men that had been told that one of the men was gay would award the person it picked as the "gay" man $50,000.

This would have been the third reality show to test "gaydar," along with Bravo's Boy Meets Boy and Fox's previously-cancelled Playing It Straight. However, the concept of Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay generated a bundle of protests from gays, led by the advocacy group GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

Why would GLAAD be opposed to a show in which straight men experience a gay lifestyle? Perhaps because the men referred to their one-week task as their "worst nightmare" and say that they were "trapped in gay hell." Considering that Massachusetts has now legalized same-sex marriage, GLAAD viewed this show as not just a step backward but as "an exercise in systematic humiliation."...

[LTR]

1. American Pie 2?

What will they do the other hour and a half?

Will there be anything left of the movie after edits?

[takebackourjobs]

2. Why should I care

if Fox makes a programming move? I haven't watched network television since 1987.

Do they still have commercials?