GOOD ON THEM!
Posted on 08/25/2012 5:29:19 AM PDT by Morgana
NBC’s Utah affiliate KSL-TV strikes again. The station, which is owned by the Mormon church, announced today that it won’t air the network’s new comedy series New Normal. Co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler, The New Normal stars Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha as gay partners who are having a baby through a surrogate. “For our brand, this program simply feels inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time,” Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL’s parent company, Bonneville International, told local papers, including KSL sibling Deseret News. The New Normal is scheduled to air Tuesdays at 8:30 PM. Simpson cited “rude and crude” dialogue, scenes that “may be too explicit” or characterizations that “might seem offensive.” The show features racy language mostly courtesy of the outspoken, politically incorrect character of the surrogate’s mother played by Ellen Barkin.
KSL, which does not carry NBC’s Saturday Night Live, has a long history of preemting NBC primetime series it deems controversial. Last fall, it dropped period drama The Playboy Club for “objectionable material. (The series was picked up by MyNetworkTV’s station in the Salt Lake City market.) KSL’s previous NBC casualties include NBC’s racy comedy Coupling and the religious-themed animated comedy God, the Devil and Bob. Both, as well as The Playboy Club were quickly cancelled. Barkin tonight called KSL’s decision “blatantly homophic” on Twitter. “Shame on u @KSLcom not airing @NBCTheNewNormal. So L&O SVU (rape & child murder) is ok? But loving gay couple having a baby is inappropriate?” she wrote. “What will play in @NBCTheNewNormal spot? A dude reading from the bible?”
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Television is a vast wasteland, not to mention pure leftist propaganda rather than wholesome entertainment.
At least someone is taking a stand on this.....too bad more stations don’t.
I find the commercials offensive - they’ve been aired during football games..
Hope this tanks, but they’ll probably keep it alive even if no one is watching.
That station knows what they’re doing. Everyone of those shows folded within a month.
Gee whiz, I just loved how NBC jammed it down the viewer’s throats during the Olympics. (no sexual metaphor intended. Then there was an extended segment on some homosexual diver from Australia about how happy he was being a homosexual with shots of him in a gay pride parade. Does NBC have an agenda? No way man. (snicker)
“The New Normal”
With the true (not media-hyped) low percentage of queer Americans? I hardly think so.
What a piece of work.
With the vast majority of Americans - in many referendums - rejecting gay “marriage”, it is NOT the “new normal”, rather a propagandizing attempt to try and make it “normal”.
The weirdest two-percent of America I trying to set the agenda for the other 98 percent, with all the help they need from Hollywood and the media.
This show needs to start out with a huge refusal to support it by the advertisers.
It’s time America stopped letting the left define “normal”.
It might help to know that KSL & KSL-TV are owned by the Bonneville Corp, (the Mormon Church).
With the true (not media-hyped) low percentage of queer Americans? I hardly think so.
Dang, real live “Ameurican” like I heard while growing up.
Unlike today’s bastardized and politically correct crappola.
I saw the preview for this show during the Olympics and remarked to my wife that it seemed like the major networks have entered a new level of silliness to promote the gay lifestyle and agenda.
It seems like every show on TV these days has to have a couple gay characters who are portrayed as the smart and caring ones. Then each show has a foil who prevents their happiness due to conservative social values. And of course the foil is portrayed as a dim bulb who is always proven uncaring and wrong in the end.
Reminds me of all the movies and TV shows in the 1980’s where the conservative would be mean, stupid or evil and have the photo of Ronald Reagan prominently displayed behind their desk.
The Chick-Fil-A support was a good start.
Good. I saw a commercial for that last night. No thanks.
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