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Fox reality show show goes after deadbeat dads

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@ April 25, 2008 8:28 AM
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Reality program seeks out baby daddies who don't pay child support bounty-hunter style and forces them to pay up.

It's like To Catch a Predator, but for dads who don't pay child support!

Fox is fishing out some more reality programming with Bad Dads (working title), says The Hollywood Reporter, a new show that seeks to rat out those who do the old wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am thing. The network has ordered a pilot of the show from J.D. Roth, the man behind other unscripted shows such as The Biggest Loser and Beauty and the Geek.

In Bad Dads director of the National Child Support Center Jim Durham tracks down men who have knocked up single moms but aren't financially contributing to their child's well-being. In the first episode, Durham tracks down a wealthy man at his country club and demands that he pay what he owes the mother of his child.

"(Durham) calls them on the phone and gives them the chance to do the right thing," Roth told The Hollywood Reporter. "Of course, those calls are never met with anything but yelling. Then he goes into their life, finds out what kind of assets they have and makes their lives miserable--foreclose on their house, repossess their car. He will squeeze them until the women get paid."

The show sounds like part Cops and part Cheaters, but Roth insists the show has much more social responsibility.

"I've seen Cops, and I want to watch more than a crack addict with his pants around his ankles running away from a police car," Roth said, clearly speaking for himself. "These guys [on Bad Dads] owe money, and they should pay."

(Source: TV.com)



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