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27 August 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (AFTRA), the primary union representing television performers, has joined the controversy over CBS's upcoming reality series Kid Nation, which has been accused of violating child labor laws. AFTRA said that it will launch its own probe of the series to see whether it violated the terms of its contract with the network. (The kids who participated in the series are not union members; however, the host, the announcer, and perhaps others are.) "We will take all legal and moral steps available to protect the rights of the performers and children on this program," Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, the union's national executive director, said in a statement. Meanwhile Paul Petersen, who played Jeff on The Donna Reed Show from 1958-1966 and now heads the watchdog group A Minor Consideration, has called the Kid Nation production "ghastly and a shame." In an interview with today's (Monday) Los Angeles Times, Petersen said, "I've never seen anything like this, in terms of wanton disregard for the lives of children."

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