All-American Muslim is an American reality television series that aired on TLC. The program followed the daily lives of five Lebanese-American Shia Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Muslim community in the United States. All-American Muslim premiered on November 13, 2011. TLC canceled All-American Muslim after one season, citing low ratings. Format Each episode follows members of various Shia Muslim families going through the events of their daily lives, with emphasis placed on how their faith affects their actions. Interview segments with individual cast members are interspersed throughout, in which they explain specific points of Islam and how they relate to the various situations. Cast members also appear in short round table segments in which they discuss general principles of Islam as they relate to specific events depicted in the episode. Cast Amen family: Parents Mohsen and Lila Amen and their adult children Suehaila Amen, Shadia Amen, Bilal Amen and Samira Amen. Shadia has a son, Adam Amen, and in the first episode she marries Jeff McDermott who converted to Islam from Catholicism to marry Shadia. Samira is married to Ali Fawaz. Aoude family: Nader and Nawal Aoude have their first child, Naseem, in episode four. Bazzy-Aliahmad family: Ali and Nina Bazzy-Aliahmad have one son, Andre. Jaafar family: Mike and Angela Jaafar have four children, Jenna, Julia, Jad and Ryan. Zaban family: Fouad and Zaynab Zaban have four children, Jamilah, Ayah, Mohamed and Fatima. Development TLC ordered All-American Muslim from Shed Media U.S. in July 2011. The initial order was for eight 30-minute episodes. The episode length later expanded to 60 minutes. TLC general manager Amy Winter said, "We wanted to show there was diversity even within the Muslim community. These are families that might have beliefs that are different than yours, but we are all living similar daily lives and hopefully we will bring that to light." Before deciding on Dearborn, TLC considered Muslim communities in San Diego, Washington and Northern Virginia. Episodes Critical and popular response Following a screening at the 2011 Television Critics Association Press Tour, The Hollywood Reporter dubbed All-American Muslim "fascinating". Noting that the participants believed the series was not intended to be educational, THR nonetheless felt that "watching their lives will teach us a lot about the culture of Americans who practice Islam and how they're both similar and unique from us". In a formal review following the series premiere, THR reiterated its