Posted on 05/13/2013 2:56:44 PM PDT by drewh
LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI)--Four U.S. TV shows with prominent gay story lines during a record-breaking season for openly gay characters will be cut for the next season, officials said. NBC's "The New Normal" and "Smash" and "Go On" and CBS's "Partners," will get the ax, the Hollywood Reporter said Saturday.
Heather Morris, who plays a bisexual on Fox's "Glee," will not be returning next season, the Reporter said.
A Hollywood Reporter survey in November discovered that gay characters on TV, including couples on "Grey's Anatomy" and "Modern Family," helped voters to support gay marriage at the polls.
"This data would suggest that seeing this stuff makes it more socially acceptable. Views on gay marriage have exponentially gone in its favor since 2002," THR pollster Jon Penns said at the time.
The THR poll came a month after watchdog group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released its annual "Where We are on TV" report that found a record number regular LGBT characters on the small screen.
"The sheer number of characters who will no longer be on the air means diversity on television is once again at risk. Following a season with the highest recorded number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters, these cancellations mean networks have to make a concerted effort to ensure the 2013-2014 season truly reflects the diversity of their audience," Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation national spokesman Wilson Cruz said.
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Never fear fudge packers, you will always have the NBA LOL
Ditto that.
What I can’t figure out is what network geniuses figured normal American families wanted to watch characters who are sexual perverts? ...Who sympathize with men who want to have sex with other men? ...Who finds turd pokers funny?
Heads should roll. Except who fires the guys at the top who decided to push the militant homosexual agenda in the first place?
Some 38 programs got cancelled by the networks this season.
Not sure if that is a record, but it is a massive number.
Some of the new replacements coming next fall sound interesting; some sound like instant failures. At least the ‘reality tv’ seems to have it course and only existing ones are showing in the schedules for next season.
I haven’t watched a sit com in 30 years or more.
I have never seen Glee because I hate the blond lady who is the coach. I didn’t know it was a bone smuggling show..
Remember when the family gathered around for Sunday night’s “Wonderful World Of Disney”?
It's like the communist rats thinking they can create what Austrian economists called "the socialist man". It cannot be done because it is simply antithetical to human nature. It's the same with homosexuality - - it will always give normal people the creeps, and there's nothing the scum can do about it. Even after all these years of fag freedom and "tolerance" in France and England, people there are in open revolt against gay "marriage
Wonder how far their ratings have plunged.
Precisely, LH !
And +1 to the rest of your post as well.
And later that night on the same channel, even a drama like Bonanza was suitable for kids watching.
never heard of them. obviously never watched them.
America does not need to know what perverts do! Send them to the crazy house.
The point was obvious.I wish that cable systems allowed people to get (and pay for) *only* the channels they wanted.If allowed to do so I'd probably have about 15 to 20 channels and "ABC Family" would *not* be one of them.
I remember my Dad getting upset that we saw mention of a girl being pregnant out of wedlock. He didn’t get up to change the channel quick enough. LOL
As soon as I see a program pushes a agenda, I don’t watch that program any further. What people do in their private homes is none of my business though I do not think young children are being properly protected. I can’t believe the progressives pretend to be all for the children though allow some gay people/ to support these groups to make a decision for these children for gender transformation/surgeries as well as forcing many children into the gay lifestyle. To me, it’s cruel while these groups are not helping the children to have their given rights to decide their own paths in life.
Sounds like Glee is trying to get gay themes in the side door having bi-sexual cheerleaders on
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