Because our adults are watching...
...or would be, if they didn't cancel the shows we like.
In much the same vein as how the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project tracks white supremicist groups, I sometimes monitor the Parents Television Council website to see what they're up to. There's also usually something I find amusing. Since the new television season is upon us, and there is no shortage of scripted dramas that I am at least somewhat interested in, I thought I'd see if they have anything new. While they are behind on the new shows, I did find a couple of things:
1. On their weekly schedule page, you can use the conviently color-coded table to look at the next week's prime time programming on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WB, UPN, and PAX, and look for the red boxes which "may include gratuitous sex, explicit dialogue, violent content, or obscene language, and is unsuitable for children programming unacceptable for your children's viewing." Y'know, shows like ER and Law & Order. If you ignore PAX, as I think most of us do, there are only two shows airing between 9/16 and 9/22 that receive the green block denoting a "[f]amily-friendly show promoting responsible themes and traditional values." One is the "reliably family-friendly" 7th Heaven. The other however is Wife Swap. Wife swapping is definitely a suitable topic for any first grader. Oddly enough, this show airs at 10:00 pm (10:30 in Newfoundland), which puts it in the time slot federally allowed to broadcast indecent material.
2. On their Ten Worst Shows of 2003/04, I see that Fear Factor moved up from #5 to #3. While it is indeed a bad show, I don't think that I would first cite it for "not depict[ing] healthy competition" but instead "depict[ing] a new low in Americans' endless pursuit of money." After describing a few sunts, they conclude with "Language continues to worsen, as does sexual innuendo, largely because more and more episodes center on scantily clad female contestants." The PTC must have really been glad when those full-body "shark-skin" suits started showing up in the Olympics a few years ago. On the other hand, those athletes aren't endlessly pursuing money, so maybe that's okay.
3. I am happy to see that of the 10 FCC Complaints actually filed by the PTC since December 2003, the one with the fewest number of complaints filed was this summer's complaint against an episode of The Inside. You can see some of the "Graphic Content!!!" here, although not the BDSM content that they really hated. Of course you can't see the context which I believe is used by the FCC to determine whether it is indecent. Two of the seven episodes of The Inside that actually aired earned the "Worst of the Week" sobriquet. It's nice to know that someone was watching it.
In much the same vein as how the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project tracks white supremicist groups, I sometimes monitor the Parents Television Council website to see what they're up to. There's also usually something I find amusing. Since the new television season is upon us, and there is no shortage of scripted dramas that I am at least somewhat interested in, I thought I'd see if they have anything new. While they are behind on the new shows, I did find a couple of things:
1. On their weekly schedule page, you can use the conviently color-coded table to look at the next week's prime time programming on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WB, UPN, and PAX, and look for the red boxes which "may include gratuitous sex, explicit dialogue, violent content, or obscene language, and is unsuitable for children programming unacceptable for your children's viewing." Y'know, shows like ER and Law & Order. If you ignore PAX, as I think most of us do, there are only two shows airing between 9/16 and 9/22 that receive the green block denoting a "[f]amily-friendly show promoting responsible themes and traditional values." One is the "reliably family-friendly" 7th Heaven. The other however is Wife Swap. Wife swapping is definitely a suitable topic for any first grader. Oddly enough, this show airs at 10:00 pm (10:30 in Newfoundland), which puts it in the time slot federally allowed to broadcast indecent material.
2. On their Ten Worst Shows of 2003/04, I see that Fear Factor moved up from #5 to #3. While it is indeed a bad show, I don't think that I would first cite it for "not depict[ing] healthy competition" but instead "depict[ing] a new low in Americans' endless pursuit of money." After describing a few sunts, they conclude with "Language continues to worsen, as does sexual innuendo, largely because more and more episodes center on scantily clad female contestants." The PTC must have really been glad when those full-body "shark-skin" suits started showing up in the Olympics a few years ago. On the other hand, those athletes aren't endlessly pursuing money, so maybe that's okay.
3. I am happy to see that of the 10 FCC Complaints actually filed by the PTC since December 2003, the one with the fewest number of complaints filed was this summer's complaint against an episode of The Inside. You can see some of the "Graphic Content!!!" here, although not the BDSM content that they really hated. Of course you can't see the context which I believe is used by the FCC to determine whether it is indecent. Two of the seven episodes of The Inside that actually aired earned the "Worst of the Week" sobriquet. It's nice to know that someone was watching it.
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