Welcome to the Neighborhood

Welcome to the Neighborhood was an unaired (and quite controversial) reality competition series that was notable for the amount of controversy it garnered before it was aired.

Premise
The series featured seven diverse couples competing to win a beautiful dream home on a perfect suburban cul-de-sac in Austin, Texas. Each week, the competing families would have participated in a challenge given by the three neighbors. The three neighborhood families who will be judging the competing families all love their quiet, picturesque community and are used to a certain kind of neighbor, one who looks and thinks just like them.

List of Families

 * The Crenshaws
 * The Eckhardts
 * The Gonzales
 * The Lees
 * The Morgans
 * The Sheets
 * The Wrights

Controversy
The first two episodes were screened before a group of critics, who lambasted it for he prejudice the judges displayed. One judge openly claimed that he "would not tolerate a homosexual". The still unaired show came under fire from the Family Research Council for concerns that "conservatives could come off looking biased" and from the National Fair Housing Alliance for concerns that the show violated anti-discrimination housing laws, which the show's producers denied. GLAAD, with reservations, approved the show's final message. Possibly the result of its poor reception, ABC pulled the show from it's scheduled on July 10, 2005. Although the now-defunct Fox Reality Channel eventually asked for the rights to air it, ABC President Steve McPherson denied the request, claiming moral issues with the very content of the show. The show's producers continue to claim that the show becomes much more light-hearted towards the end of the six episodes when they show "some eyes and hearts opening up, opinions changing and a community transforming". The producers' purported goal was to discover whether a diverse family could be accepted into a white, conservative, upper-class, Christian neighborhood. The judges did eventually award the house to the gay couple and they moved into the house. One of the neighbors of the adjoining block put his house up for sale, directly sighting the homosexuals and the negative attention the show garnered for the Circle C Ranch neighborhood as the reasons why.

Link
ABC Drops "Controversial" Reality Show