Emily, who would be far more interested in what's inside you. < /snicker>
Posted on 08/22/2011 7:19:13 AM PDT by markomalley
Fall means back to school, end of summer vacations, and exciting new television for those bored with "Bachelor" and "Survivor."
But among this year's crop of brand new television series, a rather "sex"y pattern has emerged. Shows about immature bachelors hooking up before they grow up, the 1960s' playboy bunnies, and navigating the pitfalls of a one-night-stand with your coworker, are themes slated to appear on screens across America in a matter of days.
One of the adult themed shows to air this fall is "Free Agents," a sitcom set to debut on September 14, on NBC that follows the lives of two PR professionals, after they have a drunken one-night stand. The coworkers (played by Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn) attempt to steer through the messy complications of a professional relationship in the aftermath. While this could make for some funny awkward moments, an alcohol-fueled evening full of regret is just a sad premise for a series.
NBC's "The Playboy Club" is a little more obvious from the title about the show's content. Set to air on September 19, 2011, "The Playboy Club" "centers on the Bunnies and patrons of the original Playboy Club in 1960's Chicago," according to the Internet Movie Database page for the show.
But the show has already stirred up controversy as critics like the Parents Television Council called it a "blatant attempt to obliterate any remaining standards of broadcast decency." Morality in Media created an online petition to discourage viewers to from watching the show. Even famous liberal feminist Gloria Steinem has echoed the calls for a boycott. The real Playboy Club, she said, was "the tackiest place on earth."
Based on the stand-up comedy of comedienne Whitney Cummings, "Whitney" is coming to NBC this fall, and it is bringing all the sexual humor along with it. In one trailer for the new series about a couple trying to keep the relationship alive without getting married, viewers see her boyfriend (played by Chris D'Elia) in bed with a laptop. In an attempt to spice things up, Whitney crawls on top of him and sits on his lap, soon learning that her boyfriend is video-chatting with his parents, who witness her attempt to get him "in the mood."
In another trailer the two are lying in bed and Whitney declares, "I don't think we're having sex enough. Why aren't we tapping this every night? ...Stay in that bed, because a storm of sexy is coming your way."
"New Girl" debuts on Fox on September 20 and stars Zooey Deschanel as a sweet, but dramatic, recently dumped woman who ends up getting a new apartment with three guys who vow to help her rebound.
In one trailer that sets up the series, Jessica (played by Deschanel) is seen seducing her boyfriend by arriving at their apartment early, only to discover he is sleeping with another woman. Later in the trailer, Jessica is with her roommates at a bar attempting to rebound and she exclaims to them, "You guys were totally right! I smiled, I said I needed rebound sex and it totally worked. He asked me out!"
One of the most popular shows on television right now is "Glee," a sex-filled primetime show about Ohio high school students in glee club, is beginning its 3rd season on September 20 on Fox. The raunchy show about teens has, in its first two seasons, celebrated lesbian sex experiments, drunken hook ups, masturbation and unwanted gay-smooching.
CW's "Gossip Girl" will begin its new season on September 26 and the sex in this teen drama has moved beyond boy on girl action. In 2009, the Culture and Media Institute highlighted the objectionable "teen" content, including an episode featuring a threesome.
Ben Shapiro examined the liberal assault on traditional values in Hollywood in his book "Primetime Propaganda" and in his chapter "Making The Right Cry: How Television Drama Glorifies Liberalism," he observed that, "comedies are anti-morality crusades; dramas are morality tales." Both are intentionally designed to invert traditional ideas of morality. The veteran producers and writers Shapiro interviewed admitted as much.
Emily, who would be far more interested in what's inside you. < /snicker>
how much longer before the networks start going the way of newspapers?
Probably never, because the average American watches more than 4 hours of tv a day, at least some of which is broadcast networks.
I've also read articles about people cancelling their cable/satellite because of the economy, so that's going to drive broadcast network viewership up as well.
Print newspapers went out of favor as a medium because the intelligent people that read them found more convenient, less expensive and more worthwhile sources of news. They substituted a similar good in its place.
For big fans of network television, a substitute good doesn't currently exist. We used to do lobotomies, but those fell out of favor some time ago.
We watch VERY LITTLE TV. We watch some news to stay current. Some old reruns (stupid but funny) History Channel, a couple Food Network shows like Giada and Barefoot Contessa (those are pretty much it), some football, some baseball. That’s it and...we don’t watch it all the time. We will not sit in front of a tv all day long so these shows are “caught” more or less when we have time for them.
We read and we enjoy the great outdoors where God has created so much beauty for all of us. Even those who don’t appreciate seeing a bird or a beautiful tree or sunrise or sunset. Those are free and nothing filthy about any of them.
We have grandchildren whose parents take them to see historical things, interesting things, fun things and teach them some of the old ways regarding games etc. We gave pick up stix to a little boy for his birthday and he LOVED them. Simple pick up stix.
We need to return to our values. I think we are getting saturated with all the low life things and maybe that’s a good thing because once you go so low...there is only one way to go and that is up. I have faith that will happen.
It's more about the music and the creative individuals who have that gift. it's about teens and yes sex is part of the story line, but is not who they are as artists--they have boyfriends, girlfriends but the music comes first.
Hey sex and violence make up the world--and ratings are big on the popular Big Brother [which I do not watch], but then I have other choices. Who am I to say what someone should watch. I sneak in a show I won't mention once in a while--train wrecks are not my life-so curious. ;)
These issues are controlled by ones own moral code, the government or some politician cannot control that part of our being.
I am and have always been a film buff, watch TV, and read before bed as well [at the moment, Brad Thor's latest]--and of course the newspapers and ALWAYS FR. I also am into the arts.
The show is unbearably earnest.
i don’t think i watch anything on nbc, castle on abc, ncis, big bang (i know but it’s funny) on cbs and bones on fox andi think that’s it for the networks. most series i watch are on usa, tnt, and sci-fi (minus the wwe)
With openly homosexual, Bob Greenblatt, now in charge of programming at NBC, expect gay characters and story lines to engulf the network. But since no one has actually watched NBC for a decade, I guess it doesn’t matter.
It’s a problem for us as well. We’ve been buying more and more movies. We also watch football, golf, HGTV and FoodNetwork.
I love her. An adorable actress with a voice like sunshine. She’s so wonderful in “Elf”.
You shut up! She’s perfect and wonderful. Jerk.
Plus...her father (Caleb) is one of the greatest cinematographers EVER!
She made “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” bearable.
Most current tv reeks. I don’t even try to watch most of it. I do like “House”, “Holmes on Homes”, and a handful of other offerings, but most of it stinks.
Deadliest Catch, Dual Survival, Swords, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars {Cali}, Auction Kings, Ice Road Truckers, Swamp Loggers, Swamp People {especially the two brothers that aren’t hunting gators}, American Restoration, are mainly the shows I’ll watch with a few more shows added. Most of them are entertaining and educational. None are on the Big Four Networks.
Pretty good show....
Yea I’ve seen previews :>} Thanks.
Now, now.....where's the civility?
The only shows I bother recording is Dr. Who, Top Gear UK (not the US Top Gear)Mythbusters and NASCAR.
I love my PVR, it records everything, it auto tunes Fox news at 2am so when I get up at 3am I just roll it back one hour and then I skip all the commercials or boring stuff.
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