Future Lifetime Reality Show Will Spotlight Whitney Houston's Family

This just smells immediately of "incredibly bad idea, which will probably be done in horrible taste."

Lifetime Network has reportedly given a proposed 10-episode reality series spotlighting the family the late Whitney Houston left behind a thumbs-up, Perez Hilton reports.

The series will supposedly follow around the late six-time Grammy winner's sister-in-law and manager Pat. She'll be joined by her teenaged daughter; Whitney's brother, Gary; her mother, Cissy; and Houston's own teenaged daughter by ex-husband Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina.

"The tragic loss of Whitney Houston left a void in the hearts of people all over the world, but certainly none more so than her beloved family," said Lifetime Executive Programming VP Rob Sharenow. "In this series, the multi-generations of the Houston family will bravely reveal their lives as they bond together to heal, love and grow."

It's awkward enough that this development comes out three months to the day that Houston was found unconscious Feb. 11 in her Beverly Hills Hilton hotel room's bathtub and declared dead on the scene. But Hilton reports that Pat has actually been brokering this series "over the past few years" while Houston continued struggling with drug and alcohol addictions now known to have plagued her since before her early-1990s prime of her career.

"The unexpected passing of Whitney certainly affects the direction of the show," Pat commented. "However, it is my hope that others will be enlightened as they watch our family heal and move forward."

There's no word yet on the possible involvement or lack thereof from Bobby Brown - with this being helmed by the Houston family, that's not exactly likely. One possible focus could become the family rallying together to save Bobbi Kristina from her own rumored addictions, alleged to have intensified since her mother's death.