Title of a new TV show scheduled to premiere on Fox on January 3 of next year.

It's a reality show that asks a woman adopted years earlier to determine which of eight men is her father.

I am not making this up.

Here's how it works: the contestant, at this point known only by her initials, "T.J.", uses a series of questions and answers to determine her paternity.

If she's right she receives $100,000.

If one of the seven fake fathers survives three elimination rounds, he wins the money.

In a statement calling on Fox to abandon the program, Adam Pertman, executive director of the New York-based Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, said, "The very idea of taking such a deeply personal, complex situation and turning it into a money-grubbing game show is perverse, destructive, insensitive, and offensive."

Kevin Healy, executive producer of the show, said, "The first response is that the people who have come on our show have come on willingly. Both the children and the birth parents are excited to play this game and to meet each other. Even the child's adoptive parents were supportive of them appearing on the program. And at the end of the day, everybody who participated has told us we've changed their lives forever in a positive way."

The show's hosted by Finola Hughes, formerly a star of "All My Children" (!) and currently host of the Style Network's "How Do I Look?"

So far Fox has shot six episodes but only scheduled the first.

[via Lawrence Van Gelder and the New York Times]