Showtime has elected to pick up "American Candidate," an unscripted series in which 100 people will be recruited to campaign against one another for viewer votes in a bid to emerge as a rival to the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in 2004.
The series had been planned for FX, but that network pulled out last May because of prohibitive production costs.
Robert Greenblatt, president of entertainment for Showtime, announced that "American Candidate" would air on Showtime this summer, though no specific date for the premiere has been determined. Greenblatt also cited the recent Federal Election Commission's ruling that the show's content will not violate federal election laws.
