A public petition, started by Lebanese-Australian poet Candy Royalle, calls on Channel Nine to pull the show.
While the show has yet to air, the trailer has left many highly sceptical. It’s not hard to see why.
The trailer is cartoonish, filled with stereotypical trappings of Arab culture. The family patriarch is dressed in a singlet and sandals. His son is a weight-lifting meathead who thinks a $22 million lotto win makes his family billionaires.
The women in the show appear exotic and vain, preening and shimmying around the house.
The show’s highly exaggerated depiction of Lebanese-Australian culture comes in much the same vein as Pizza, which started airing on SBS in 2000. That’s not surprising, as its creators are Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who both starred in Pizza and its movie spinoff Fat Pizza.
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Will you be watching it?
It it's too stupid like Housos, I won't be.
