…but I heard second or thirdhand that the show producers deliberately filmed and edited it in such a way as to make his family look bad.

I’ve watched the show a few times and just assumed that was the goal no matter what the family.

No thank you. Although maybe I should ask what they are paying first. Heheh

Families that appear on the show receive a generous honorarium.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t enough money in the world to get me to appear on that show.

I would take everything I’ve just said with a huge grain of salt, but it’s concerning enough to me that if I were going to volunteer for this I’d want to look into it very carefully and determine how true of a portrayal I’d get.

I would be a little concerned, because if I recall correctly there was a similar show (or maybe the same one; I remember so few of the details that perhaps this comment will be utterly useless) that did an episode with an atheist family. But the show was edited in such a way as to make the atheist family appear pretty terrible–never going outside to play, portraying both the husband and the wife (who was staying with the other family) as obsessed with their work, etc. I would want to be sure this new episode isn’t going to be spun in a similar way.

wasn’t the atheist in question in that episode Reginald Finley, a.k.a. ‘The Infidel Guy’?

…[C]hildless people being discriminated against.

What about the meaux with kids?