Lifetime Is Doing The Whitney Houston Family Reality Show

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By Nads | Friday, May 11, 2012 | 3:32 pm | 8 Comments
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Lifetime just announced that they picked up a Whitney Houston family reality show. Yeah, you read it correctly–a show about Whitney’s family as they try to pick up the pieces after Whitney’s passing. The show will be about Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law, and her husband as they try to support Bobbi Kristina. Lifetime’s EVP Rob Sharenow said, “The tragic loss of Whitney Houston left a void in the hearts of people all over the world, but certainly none more so than her beloved family. In this series, the multi-generations of the Houston family will bravely reveal their lives as they bond together to heal, love, and grow.”

DUDE. This is too soon! I feel like Whitney’s family is just exploiting and milking Whitney’s death. I am strongly opposed to the concept of this show, and think it’s wrong on so many levels. Am am overreacting by feeling this way? It all just feels dirty to me. 

What will they tittle the show? Too Soon?

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8 Comments

  1. 1
    NapaNonnie
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    Sad way to make money off a tragedy… I hate to admit that I’ll probably follow it (don’t know if I’ll watch it) to see if it’s as big a train wreck as Being Bobby Brown.

  2. 2
    CathodeTube CathodeTube
    Posted May 12, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Agree, Nads, too soon! Maybe they’ll tie it in with that logo relaunch somehow. “Your life. Your period. Cringingly painful and always too soon.”

  3. 3
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted May 12, 2012 at 9:46 am

    Well that would certainly be appropriate. Well we do love our famewhores, but this is just ghoulish. No it is only right and proper to be skeeved out by this whole idea. Her life was tragic, and it would be a good thing, a noble thing to rescue Bobbi Kristina. This is not the way.

  4. 4
    merry
    Posted May 14, 2012 at 9:10 am

    Nads: you’re not overreacting AT ALL. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised (especially considering this is the network that brought us gems like “The Pregnancy Pact”), but I always am. There’s a lot of trash on television, but profiting from a child’s grief feels like a whole new low.

  5. 5
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted May 14, 2012 at 9:17 am

    The Pregnancy Pact was AWESOME! It actually came on this weekend.

    Anywho, I hope this goes away like the Jackson family reality show that was supposed to start after MJ’s death.

    When Whitney died they ask that we respect their privacy as they grieve but now they want to put it all out there for the world to see. It feels gross.

  6. 6
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted May 14, 2012 at 9:33 am

    The Pregnancy Pact crap happened about 40 minutes north of here. Horrendous, just like this idea.

  7. 7
    C_Dub
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 10:15 am

    Although I agree that it is a bad idea; allegedly this was in the works prior to Houston’s death.

  8. 8
    2muchbravo
    Posted October 24, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    Watching the first epi. only because it was on after Steel Magnolias.
    Hmmm, well Bobbi Kristina is coming off as a little kray-kray. Don’t know if that’s because she’s 19 and her mom died and her Dad is Bobby Brown or if she’s always been kray-kray. The situation can’t be easy. Heck, I was 36 when my mom died (and she wasn’t famous) and I wouldn’t have wanted cameras in my face for the first Mother’s Day.
    I had no idea about this kid Nick that Whitney took in that Kristi is in love with.
    The rest of her family seems normal and concerned about her.
    Don’t know if I’ll watch any more.

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