PASADENA, CALIF. — Maybe she was right after all.

        WB executives today will announce a new title for the fall Maybe I'm Adopted situation comedy after a national protest launched by Norwood's Gail Huff, an adoption activist.

        The sitcom, about an attractive 15-year-old girl embarrassed by her weird parents (Fred Willard, Julia Sweeney), older brothers and younger twin sisters, will be introduced as Maybe It's Me to the Television Critics Association meeting here.

        Mrs. Huff, who operates an adoption-support Internet site, says more than 1,000 letters and e-mails had been sent to the WB complaining about the insensitive title since the show was announced May 15.

        Series creator Suzanne Martin, a former Frasier writer, says she was surprised by the strong reaction to the title of the show, a semi-autobiographical account of her wacky New England family.

        She grew up fantasizing that she was adopted, “and that my real parents were really some fabulous king and queen from another country, and they would come back some day and take me away,” she says.

        Mrs. Huff, who has two children (ages 8 and 4) by adoption, says the original title promoted “the negative tone associated with adoption that many of us in the adoption community are trying to change. It's a horrible thing to insinuate that adoptive children do not fit in or belong in their families built by adoption.”

        Ms. Martin says she decided to change the title after reading “some of the extremely heart-felt letters” received by the network. “Some people were hurt by the title. I didn't want to hurt anybody.”

        Mrs. Huff was pleased to learn the news from the Enquirer.

        “I'm very happy. I had had a good feeling that they would change the title, but you never know,” says Mrs. Huff, who publishes an online adoption newsletter and sells adoption announcements and cards through her Web site (www.miracleofadoption.com).

        “I'm glad we could do this (title change) for adoption awareness,” she says. “It was just a little thing, but a big thing (to us).”

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