"Survivor: Lord of the Flies" d/b/a Kid Nation doesn’t debut until September, but CBS may already have a few lawsuits on its hands. Fortunately, there’s nothing like a child abuse scandal to get the advertisers talking.

At least one parent (yes the same one who let her child participate on a reality TV show) wrote a letter of complaint to New Mexico state officials claiming the Kid Nation experience bordered on abuse.

Before July 1, television productions were exempt from child labor laws in New Mexico—where Kid Nation was shot—and the preteens worked from “when the rooster started crowing” to about 9:30 at night. (Now, children in New Mexico can only work 18 hours during a school week, with no shooting after 7 p.m.) Asked to comment, executive producer Tom Forman told TVWeek that “work” is a strong word. "We were essentially running a summer camp … They’re not ‘working.’ They’re living and we’re taping what’s going on."

Also several children drank bleach from an unmarked soda bottle. Yep, sounds just like our summers in the Berkshires.