Ms. Roz Taylor-Jordan

Roz Taylor Jordan, Vice President of casting for Nash Entertainment, notes that "we're not looking for outlandish, crazy stories.

"Before, we were looking for the 2005 Hatfield and McCoys and we found that," said Roz Taylor-Jordan, vice president of casting for Nash Entertainment.Among the most chilling tales were lawns doused with acid and dogs deliberately poisoned with rat killer.

"The problems were too severe," said Ms. Taylor-Jordan."TBS said, 'That's not funny.'"

A new round of casting is on, and the producers are after kinder, gentler family feuds.

"We're just looking for two families who are living next door, having normal neighbor annoyances," said Ms. Taylor-Jordan.
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Both sides are guaranteed $100,000 minimum for participating, but the big winner is the loser.That family must move to a new house, with all expenses paid by the producers.

"You can move across the street, down the block, across the country.It doesn't really matter," said Ms. Taylor-Jordan.
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"If you're willing to play, it can be good fun," Ms. Taylor-Jordan said.

The end result is one family is moving away," says Roz Taylor Jordan, Vice President of casting for Nash Entertainment.

The losing family will have to pack their bags, sell their home to the show and move away.

"Do they have to leave town?Absolutely not, they can move in the same cul-de-sac.They can move around the corner.They get to pick their house, we pay all the moving expenses and we buy their existing house from them," says Jordan.

The losing family must pay for their new home.And both the winning and losing teams are guaranteed a minimum of $100,000 just for participating.

Jordan says the show will be taped this coming summer and that puts them in a time crunch to find the right families.

"I'm looking for two families who have a traditional mom and dad in each house, who have at least two kids over the age of 10, are gregarious, fun, outgoing and competitive," says Jordan.

The problems that the families have with each other can run the gamut from scenarios such as your neighbor's dog barking non-stop or using your lawn as a restroom, the neighborhood kids shooting basketball hoops at 6 a.m. on a Saturday, teen parties that last all night, your neighbor's overgrown tree or a fence that's falling down in your yard.

"I'm not looking for mean-spirited people, I'm not looking for a bunch of restraining orders, and I'm not looking for an episode of Jerry Springer. [The problems] have to be relatable, fun, normal stuff that happens," says Jordan.

"The competition is going to come from whatever the particular issues of the families are.So the whole show is going to be built around their complaints," says Jordan.

For instance, if the complaint is regarding the neighbor's dog making messes in other people's yards, there may be a competition between the families and then the losing family might have to go pick up dog poop in the neighborhood the next day.

Because the time crunch is so severe, Jordan says they're offering a huge bounty of $50,000 to anyone who can help find families who are right for the new show.

"People have annoyances and the best way to start talking about them is if they feel they have a vested interest in it.So if you know a family that would be great for this, maybe you heard about [this show] and they didn't, by giving you the $50,000 it gets you to help us get [those families] much quicker," says Jordan.
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That's severe problems and that's not what this show is going to be," says Jordan.

When the show airs in the fall, Jordan wants it to have a positive impact.

"We want it to be a fun, comedy [show] that families can relate to and that people, hopefully, after they watch it will learn something about how to be better neighbors," says Jordan.

"We are excited about the show," said Roz Taylor-Jordan, Vice President of Casting for Nash Entertainment, the production company of "Love Thy Neighbor".

Families who participate in the show are paid a minimum of $100,000, and a $50,000 reward is being offered to anyone who helps find a family to star in the show, according to Roz Taylor-Jordan, vice president of casting at Nash Entertainment.

Taylor-Jordan described the show, which is scheduled for at least six episodes, as a "fun family comedy" that will pit two real life neighbors, with real life issues, against each other in a series of fun competitions.
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They might wave and say Hi,' their kids might play, but the parents don't necessarily hang out," Taylor-Jordan said.

"We definitely do not want this to be an episode of Jerry Springer.' We were casting this a month ago and we were looking for more Hatfield and McCoy (type) stories -- ongoing feuds going over several years, and then we realized those problems were too severe and it wasn't funny," she said.

"So now we are looking for normal related stories that don't have to be that entrenched.For example, the kid with the garage band that is playing every night until 11 or 12, or the dog that wakes you up every night every time the wind blows. ...Or the tree; there is always a tree that has fruit or flowers that drops into a neighbor's yard, and you like fresh fruit, but not rotten fruit," she said.

"Somebody killing your dog, lighting your fence on fire, or pouring acid on your lawn is not what I am looking for," she said, adding, "Someone with a list of restraining orders a mile long need not apply."