Sunday, February 20, 2005

The best source for porn on TV, PTC Parents Television Council

The best source for porn on TV, PTC Parents Television Council

See for yourself.

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CBS Reairs Teen Orgy Party
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South Park - Whore off - Comedy Central
Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy comments that "Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody on broadcast television to do a rear-entry scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy."

What shows to watch?

WORST
1. Everwood
WB/9:00 Monday – not ranked last season
With its Norman Rockwell-style opening and small town sensibility, Everwood gives every appearance of being a family drama, but it's nothing of the kind. It centers on the family of Andrew Brown, a successful New York brain surgeon who moves his teenage son Ephram and eight-year-old daughter Delia to Everwood, Colorado after the death of his wife.
What makes Everwood problematic is the careless and irresponsible treatment of sexual issues – especially when the teenaged characters are involved. In one story arc from this season, high schooler Ephram fell in love with his little sister's college-aged baby-sitter. The two eventually sleep together, and in the season's final episode, she reveals to Dr. Brown that she is pregnant with Ephram's child. Rather than have Ephram face up to his responsibility -- to learn the serious consequences of his decision to become sexually active -- Dr. Brown instead gives the woman money and sends her away and makes her promise not to tell Ephram about the baby. In another episode, Amy Abbott, the teenaged daughter of Dr. Brown's competitor Harold Abbott goes to Dr. Brown for some birth control. Dr. Brown gives it to her without ever informing Dr. Abbott of what he did. Such content might be more excusable in a series that was intended for and marketed to adult audiences, but Everwood's reckless messages about sex without consequences are expressly targeted to impressionable teens.

2. That '70s Show
Fox/8:00 Wednesday – not ranked last season
Set in a small Wisconsin town during the 1970s, That '70s Show follows a group of teens as they learn to deal with parents, sex, and drugs. The characters include Eric, an average kid from a blue-collar family; and his friends Hyde, the political radical; Donna, Eric's girl-next-door love interest; the handsome but dimwitted Kelso; the pretty and snobbish Jackie; and Fez, a sexually frustrated foreign-exchange student.That '70s Show earns second place on our Worst list this year for its casual and irresponsible treatment of teen sex and drug use, which are depicted as risk- and consequence-free. This season's storylines included Kelso getting a girl pregnant after a one-night stand and Donna walking in on Eric while he is masturbating in her bathroom.

3. Fear Factor
NBC/8:00 Monday – ranked #5 last season
Riding high on the culture's obsession with what is shocking or uncouth; Fear Factor continues to push the envelope with its disgusting and physically dangerous stunts. Competitors -- which this season included kids, couples, siblings, models, and Miss America contestants -- come ready to do absolutely anything for $50,000. NBC touts Fear Factor as family-friendly, but it does not depict healthy competition; instead it depicts a new low in Americans' endless pursuit of money.
Family Fear Factor was a disturbing new addition to this franchise, as viewers uncomfortably watched parents encouraging their children to taunt and torment other children; cursing; and putting undue pressure on their young children to win. One child was even sucked beneath a raft being pulled by a speedboat while performing a stunt; his mother continued on with the stunt rather than check on his safety.
Other stunts this season included drinking the fluid squeezed from cow eyeballs; drinking lard blended with cow parts and rancid milk; escaping from handcuffs and a plastic body bag while submerged in a pool; driving a car onto a moving semi while blindfolded; sucking fluid from cow intestines and then drinking the fluid; eating pig uterus; launching a car over a train; drinking a maggot-and-fly milkshake; and escaping from a bug-filled body bag inside a morgue drawer. Language continues to worsen, as does sexual innuendo, largely because more and more episodes center on scantily clad female contestants.

4. Two and a Half Men
CBS/9:30 Monday – first season
Promiscuous jingle-writer Charlie's life is turned upside down when his divorced brother Alan and young nephew Jake move into his home. Charlie's overpowering libido, unfortunately, trumps any impulse to be a responsible role model to his young nephew. There are constant references to the steady stream of one-night stands parading in and out of Charlie's bedroom. As for female role models, there aren't any. Women in this sitcom consist of the bimbos Charlie sleeps with, then discards; Alan's shrewish, vindictive, gold-digger of an ex-wife; and Alan and Charlie's wealthy, materialistic and youth-obsessed mother.
Despite the presence of a precocious youngster, episodes of this show are decidedly not for children. Scenes have depicted a woman massaging Charlie's genitals under the table at a business meeting; Charlie masturbating; and Charlie and Alan's mother sleeping with a man who used to be a woman who Charlie slept with prior before her gender reassignment surgery. To make matters worse, ten-year-old Jake is often included in these adult situations. In one episode, he walked in on Charlie in the shower with a girlfriend; in another he drew pictures of one of Charlie's girlfriends wearing buttocks-baring underwear after he saw her dressed that way while they were eating breakfast.

5. C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigation)
CBS/9:00 Thursday – ranked #1 last season
A series about crime-scene investigators is bound to deal with some distasteful subjects, but C.S.I. takes it a step further by providing graphic depictions of decaying bodies, grisly crime scenes, dissections, flashbacks of brutal rapes and murders, and kinky and bizarre sexual fetishes. Such content would be bad enough at 10:00 p.m., but this series airs at 9:00 (8:00 in the Central and Mountain time zones), with reruns often airing during the Family Hour.
This season, episodes have included storylines about a murder within a "swingers" community, fur fetishists who have sex while wearing animal costumes, and vampirism. Other graphic scenes from this season include a severed head being delivered in the mail, teenagers having sex on a roller coaster, and teenagers killing another teen with hammers at a construction site.

6. The Surreal Life
WB/9:00 Thursday – not ranked last season
Six B-list celebrities share a house for a couple of weeks as cameras film their daily interactions, a la The Real World. The premise in and of itself isn't necessarily problematic; the executives at the WB, however, made sure there would be plenty of salacious material by casting adult film star Ron Jeremy; former Baywatch babe Traci Bingham; and Real World party girl Trishelle Cannatella. One episode featured a backyard barbecue Jeremy hosted for his porn-industry colleagues, with cameras capturing plenty of footage of half-naked porn stars. In another episode, the six housemates spent a day at a nudist camp. Once again, camera crews made sure they captured plenty of footage of the nudists lounging and playing volleyball. If that wasn't bad enough, throughout the show's run, Bingham and Jeremy played on ongoing game of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours." Most episodes, in fact, seemed to contain at least one scene in which Bingham tries to get Jeremy to remove his pants. Language was also extreme, with each episode featuring numerous bleeped obscenities. Although The Surreal Life won't be returning to the WB next season, it isn't going away. VH1 picked-up the series.

7. Girlfriends
UPN/9:00 Monday – ranked #7 last season
Girlfriends has earned comparisons to HBO's Sex in the City for its frank treatment of the sex lives of four friends living in Los Angeles.
No subject seems to be off-limits for Girlfriends. Script writers will mine any topic for a cheap laugh, no matter how tacky. One episode this season, for example, had Joan telling her boyfriend she had a yeast infection to get out of having sex with him. In another, Joan's friend Sharon recommends classes at "Mama Gina's School of Womanly Arts," saying, "Oh Joan, those classes are wonderful. I highly recommend 'Owning your Orgasm.' And it's a prerequisite for 'Finding Your Vagina.'"

8. Las Vegas
NBC/9:00 Monday – first season
What can you expect from a show about Sin City, but sex, sex, and more sex? Las Vegas, a new drama about the staff of an upscale casino, delivers just that along with plenty of foul language and a little violence thrown in for good measure. All manner of debauchery takes place while Ed Deline, formerly of the CIA, and his sexy staff work to maintain order and keep the money flowing.
From the opening scenes of the first episode, which included Ed catching his daughter having sex with his young protégé and a couple having sex in an elevator knowing full well the elevator was equipped with a security camera, this series has used every cheap sexual gimmick imaginable in a desperate attempt to lure viewers. One episode from this season featured a fictitious senator, famous for his morality-and-virtue platform, secretly coming to Vegas to blow off steam. He is shown in a lewd position with an apparently nude stripper while watching other women strip. On another episode the casino hosts an indoor wet T-shirt contest in which the contestants' nipples can be seen beneath the transparent t-shirts. Yet another installment depicts Mike, the valet, solving a heist case in the stripper suite while two half-naked blonds gyrate on a pole. Needless to say strong sexual innuendo can be found in just about every episode, and as long as there are strippers and alcohol on the Vegas Strip, the content of this show won't change.

9. Will & Grace
NBC/9:00 Thursday – ranked #8 last season
Will and Grace began as a sitcom about the friendship between a gay man and his best friend, a quirky straight woman. Over the last few seasons its focus has changed ever so slightly to make more room for the bawdy banter supporting characters Jack and Karen are famous for. This shift opened the door for an even higher level of crude innuendo and graphic anatomical references, both hetero- and homosexual, all of which is especially inappropriate given that episodes of Will & Grace often air during the Family Hour.

Karen gives an especially offensive description of her body in one episode and later in the season her kinky relationship with Lyle becomes a main source of comedy. Infidelity also remains a common storyline. Karen continues to feud with her husband's mistress; Will's mother agrees to share her husband with his mistress; and Leo cheats on Grace. Will's sexuality is always a hot topic: his lone female lover claims he was the best she'd ever had; a lesbian wants to sleep with him; and a nickname recalls a certain sexual practice. This show continues to rely on indecency as a source of edginess and thus will continue to rank among the worst shows for family audiences.

10. Cold Case
CBS/8:00 Sunday – first season
This is a perfect example of a very adult-themed series airing in an inappropriate time slot. Cold Case is a drama about a Philadelphia police detective who delves into old murder cases with a fresh eye. Stories are often told in flashback, recounting graphic murders and other violent crimes.
During its freshman season, Cold Case aired scenes of a teenaged boy beating his girlfriend to death with a tennis racket; teenaged boys picking up prostitutes; and a woman being beaten to death with a car antenna. Disturbing plots included a case in which a nun accidentally kills an orphan and buries him anonymously in a field; an adult man who has his son bring young teenaged girls to the house so the father can rape them; and teenaged boys at a military school who murder the coach who molested them.

For more information
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