Red Hot Chili Peppers Sue Showtime over Duchovny's Big Hit

(andPOP) - After such huge success in its first season, Showtime's hit new show Californication, starring David Duchovny, should have seen the trouble coming.

The show was slapped in the face with a lawsuit by none other than the Red Hot Chili Peppers themselves, whose 1999 single and album share the same name as the show.

According to reports, the band claims that the title of the show is "inherently distinctive, famous ... and immediately associated in the mind of the consumer [with the RHCP]".

And as if it weren't bad enough for the people at Showtime, the band goes on to personally put down the show itself. "The Red Hot Chili Peppers would never have allowed their iconic album and song title to be used as the title of a television program - much less this one," the band's lawyer, Justin Ehrlich, stated.

Apparently the Red Hot Chili Peppers don't get a chance to watch all that much TV, because Showtime's Californication did rather well in it's first season on air, with a rating of 72 on Metacritic only a few episodes into its first season. If there were ever a show to be associated with, this would likely be the one.

Although conservative viewers may find Duchovny's character, Hank Moody, a little rude, crude and out of control, the actor has taken a significant step away from the Fox Moulder role and most fans have been anything but supportive ? not to mention delighted.

Season 2 of, well, what will hopefully still be called Californication, will begin filming in April 2008.