There is a television show that the media has been buzzing about for months. The show that has been shut down by the mayor of New York City, sued by a rich industrialist, and had its Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken arrested at Disney World. The show that snuck its host onto the House Judiciary Committee panel on the opening day of impeachment hearings and into the White House to help the First Lady find a new husband. All this for a show that hasn't even aired it's first episode!

It's Michael Moore's THE AWFUL TRUTH, Bravo's new series that will premiere on Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 PM/ET and 10:00 PM/PT. Whether he's driving a Winnebago full of gay men having sex through states where sodomy is illegal or challenging Secretary of Defense William Cohen to arm-wrestle him, Michael Moore brings the Everyman everywhere he's not suppose to be.

"Bravo has always supported creative expression," comments Francis Berwick, Senior Vice President of Programming for Bravo. "Michael Moore's direct, no-holds-barred commentary on our cultural landscape has garnered hundreds of thousands of fans who consider Moore their hero."

Using Moore's signature "guerilla video" style and scathingly funny observations, THE AWFUL TRUTH is a weekly half-hour series that brings together comedy with nonfiction, and places Moore squarely in the middle of today's controversial issues and events. The 12-week original series will be taped before a live audience featuring Michael's humorous rants, the likes of which first received critical acclaim in his award-winning, 1998 documentary, "The Big One".

Planned segments for the premiere season will combine topical issues with Moore's own keen observations, including:

• A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt - Moore takes a group of Puritans down to D.C. to show Ken Starr and the Congress how to conduct a proper (and affordable) witch hunt.
• A Gift for Bill Gates - Bill Gates has just built the most expensive house in the world-a six story, $60 million pad. Mike attempts to give him a Weedwacker and some Martha Stewart sheets as a housewarming gift.
• Air-drop TV's on Afghanistan - The new religious government of Afghanistan has given everyone in the country 15 days to turn in their TV sets or else. Michael decides to air-drop TV's on Afghanistan so they don't miss his show.
• Joe Camel Needs a Job - Mike tries to get the lovable mascot his job back at R.J. Reynolds pushing cigarettes to kids.

Michael Moore's ground-breaking documentary, "Roger & Me", chronicled his relentless pursuit of Roger Smith, Chairman of General Motors, to confront him about the closing of GM factories in Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan. Written, directed, and produced by Moore, "Roger & Me" is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. The film appeared on more than 100 critics' Ten Best Films of the Year lists and won numerous awards. Moore's other films include "Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint" (an epilogue to "Roger & Me"); the comedy feature "Canadian Bacon", starring John Candy; and his most recent feature, "The Big One", which he filmed while on a 47-city author tour for his bestselling debut book, "Downsize This!" Moore is also the co-author (with "The Awful Truth" executive producer Kathleen Glynn) of the recently published "Adventures in a TV Nation".

Moore's first foray into television was with the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-Winning series, "TV Nation". Part satire, part news magazine, the New York Daily News called the critically-acclaimed "TV Nation" "the best show in the last thirty years." In 1995, "TV Nation" won the Emmy Award for the Best Informational Series and received a second Emmy nomination in 1996.

"The Awful Truth" is an original series produced by Bravo and Great Britain's Channel 4. The new original series follows in the footsteps of two other acclaimed Bravo series: "Inside the Actors Studio", where great actors and directors share their methods (Sundays at 8:00PM/ET), and Bravo Profiles, which takes viewers behind the scenes of the creative process (Monday through Friday at 8:00PM).

Bravo, The Film and Arts Network, offers critically acclaimed American and international films as well as performing arts, including dance, theater, classical music and jazz. Bravo is available to over 35 million homes nationwide.