'".Hatem also acknowledged that as they were preparing to "sell a show whose pilot has priests, and a monsignor", the Church was in the midst of a sex abuse scandal that was being reported in newspapers all over the country.Hatem recalled that "the joke was, '[the show wasn't] on the air long enough to generate controversy'; we would have "loved" controversy, but we flew so low under the radar that I don't think anyone had a chance to be offended or even construe a way to take offense".