• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, Yesterday

A pair of wholesome, high-rated TV co-hosts are coming out with a show whose F-word title flies in the face of their G-rated image and reputation.

The show is titled “Squatters: Get The F*** Out of My House!,” a docuseries about squatters and how these loathsome freeloaders have taken up residence in people’s homes and made their lives a living hell. 

Or should I say “living heck”? Probably not, because that would constitute bad writing. 

But sound out the title of this “Squatters” show without “F***” in the title, and you still get a great title minus the f-word reference: “Squatters: Get Out of My House!” See? That’s not so bad, is it?

The show and presumably its title come from Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who are both 55 and are married co-hosts of the sunniest talk show on TV, “Live! With Kelly and Mark.” They are both credited as executive producers. 

The use of “F***” is the very definition of gratuitous. I don’t see any f-word references in the title of another squatters docuseries that beat Kelly and Mark’s f-word series to the air by three weeks.

That one is simply titled “Squatters.” It premiered on A&E on May 12. “Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House!” premieres this Thursday (June 4) on Hulu. 

The topic of -f-word titles has come up a number of times in previous TV Blogs. Previous examples include the Viceland food show called “F*ck, That’s Delicious,” a Gordon Ramsay show on Fox titled “The F-Word with Gordon Ramsay” and the comedy called “Kevin Can F**k Himself” on AMC.

While families who watch TV together can do without f-word titles, there is little reason to doubt that the homeowners whose nightmarish squatter stories are featured on both of TV’s “Squatters” shows have sometimes applied the f-word to these frustrating predicaments. 

The fact is, both docuseries are doing a great service in bringing attention to the widespread criminal practice of invading other people’s homes when the owners are away and then living there under the protection of ridiculous state housing laws.

“In ‘Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House,’ families are forced into shocking and emotional battles against squatters exploiting legal loopholes to live rent-free in homes they don’t own,” says a description from ABC News Studios, which co-produced the show.

“The six-part series follows ordinary people blindsided by manipulators who know exactly how to weaponize tenant protections and turn the legal system against the very people it is supposed to protect,” ABC says.

Episode One of Hulu’s “Squatters” tells the story of a homeowner in Queens who got arrested when she attempted to enter her own home that had been taken over by squatters.

Hulu says footage of the incident, which will be seen on the show, went viral and sparked nationwide outrage leading to changes in New York State law. 

Hopefully, both of TV’s squatter shows will lead to similar legislative intervention in other states.