HOLLYWOOD: “TLC Channel Cancels ‘All-American Muslim’ Reality Show”
Tweet From The Hollywood Reporter The controversial series, which faced protests from the Florida Family Association and a subsequent Lowe’s boycott, will not return for a second season. 10:59 AM PST 3/7/2012 by Lesley Goldberg All-American Muslim has run its course. The TLC series has been canceled after one season, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The docuseries about...
AP: “TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’ Takes on Sept. 11 Attacks This Sunday”
Tweet From Chicago Tribune By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer12:55 p.m. CST, December 29, 2011 NEW YORK— A television show about members of a Muslim community in Michigan is focusing what may be its second-to-last episode almost entirely on the conflicted feelings that its featured participants have about marking anniversaries of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The episode...
NPR BARBERSHOP: “GOP Debates, Iraq War & TLC ‘All-American Muslim’ Controversy”
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: “Russell Simmons Blasts Lowe’s for Pulling TLC’s Muslim Show Ads”
Tweet From Entertainment Weekly by James Hibberd Hip-hop mogul and social activist Russell Simmons slammed hardware giant Lowe’s for its decision to pull its ads from TLC’sAll-American Muslim reality show and warned the company could face outrage from civil rights groups beyond the Muslim community. “This can’t happen in America; [Lowe's] needs to fix this immediately,” Simmons...
VARIETY: “Right-Wingers Seek Ad Boycott for TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’
Tweet From VARIETY Magazine Ad boycott in question over TLC show By ANDREW WALLENSTEIN The TLC series “All-American Muslim” is prompting complaints from right-wing extremist groups claiming they’ve successfully pressured advertisers to pull out of the program. One such organization, Florida Family Association, posted an e-mail on its website that it alleges to have received from...
COLUMN: “TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’: Step in the Right Direction”
Tweet From Patheos Posted on December 6, 2011 by Arsalan Iftikhar This is a guest post from author Arsalan Iftikhar. Network news anchor Katie Couric once declared that “bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country was one of the most disturbing stories to surface” in the last few years. At the time, Couric was referring to the proposed Park51...
TV REVIEW: New Show ‘All-American Muslim’ on TLC
Tweet November 13, 2011 by Arsalan Iftikhar Exclusive | The Crescent Post Contrary to what many Americans might believe, it should be noted that not all Muslims are Arabs (nor are all Arabs even Muslims). Even so, although only 18% of the global Muslim population are people of Arab descent; the cast of the new...
NPR AUDIO: “TV Show ‘All-American Muslim’ to Debut on TLC”
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VIDEO: “TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’ TV Show Premieres in November”
Tweet From Hollywood Reporter The eight part series follow five diverse Dearborn, Mich. families. October 19, 2011 4:14 PM PDT 10/19/2011 by Jethro Nededog TLC announced on Wednesday that its new eight-episode reality series, All-American Muslim, will premiere on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 10 p.m. STORY: TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’: More Educational Than the Cast Will Admit It...
