Dude, Where's My Local Fox Affiliate? I Want to Write a Scathing Letter - This week, Fox unveiled it's plan for a new reality show called Dude, Seriously, I'm Gay. I'm not entirely sure why they think exploiting this angle is going to work, seeing how quickly they yanked the charming Playing It Straight from the sked, but that's beside the point. GLAAD is up in arms over the concept: two straight men battle in a competition to convince friends and family they are gay, for a $50,000 prize.

Now, you'd think the concept alone would be enough to turn some people off, but apparantly the initial press release contained some "offensive stereotypes" and as a result, a contrite Fox apologized and released an edited version. As the esteemed Lisa de Moraes of the WaPo says: "If Fox wanted to do a really interesting reality series in which two heterosexual men experience what it is like to be a gay man in America, they ought to also send them someplace like Laramie, Wyo. Of course, that would not be the 'outrageously satirical' and 'hilarious reality special' that Fox has promised this one will be." Besides the fact that it sounds like crap, I'm not even sure how the game show aspect will work. The press release says that at the end of the show, a jury will "declare which of the two guys they believe is actually gay." Does this give them the option to say that both straight guys are poor actors and split the $50K between the "panel of judges made up of gay men from all walks of life"? I'd tell you to tune in and find out, but I don't think it would be worth your time.