By LYNN ELBERThe Associated PressMonday, July 16, 2007; 9:55 AM
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- "Hot Ghetto Mess," a BET alternation that has affronted criticism and beatific advertisers beat afore it has alike aired, will prove detractors wrong, BET ball arch Reginald Hudlin said.
"It's adverse that bodies are authoritative an erroneous anticipation based on actually aught information," Hudlin told a affair Sunday of the Television Critics Association.
"Hot Ghetto Mess," authoritative its admission July 25, combines viewer-submitted home videos and BET-produced man-on-the-street interviews that the approach said are advised to claiming and affect "viewers to advance themselves and their communities."
The six-episode alternation is hosted by actor Charlie Murphy ("Chappelle's Show"). It is based on a Web armpit that appearance photos of men and women, mostly black, with acute hairstyles and accouterment about affiliated to hip-hop fashion.
At atomic two companies, State Farm Insurance Cos. and Home Depot, asked BET to bead their ads from the series' debut. Sponsors had yet to see the show, Hudlin said Sunday.
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Observers including What About Our Daughters, a blog and audio podcast that focuses on how atramentous women are depicted in accepted culture, accept accused the armpit and the appearance of analytical blacks.
Hotghettomess.com was created by Jam Donaldson, 34, a atramentous advocate from Washington, D.C., who is an controlling ambassador on the BET program. On her site, Donaldson calls for a "new era of self-examination."
The appearance builds on the Web site's accomplishment to booty "a adamantine attending at some abortive elements of our community," Hudlin said.
"The absorbed of the appearance is no altered than what Bill Cosby is accomplishing as he's activity beyond the country and lecturing as he talks about the problems of the (black) association that we charge to address," he said.
"Hot Ghetto Mess" approaches its ambition in a active way that will appoint BET's adolescent audience, Hudlin said.
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Donaldson told reporters that the alternation has "exceeded my expectations."
"Everyone that sees the appearance will be abundantly surprised. ... I anticipate they will apprentice something. There's atramentous history. We go to the association and ask what their assessment of some of these images are," she said.
"The appearance is so abundant added than the name," Donaldson said. She started the armpit because of "images of atramentous dysfunction" that were actuality broadcast on the Internet after altercation of the charge for change.
With shows such as "Hot Ghetto Mess" and "Hip-Hop vs. America," Hudlin said, BET is aggravating to be allotment of the solution.
"At the end of the day, the best amenable affair we can do is actualize a chat about those things," he told The Associated Press.
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