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Network Axes Fall Hard on Gay Characters
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 11, 2013 | Lesley Goldberg

Posted on 05/11/2013 6:04:27 PM PDT by murron

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To: Cicero; Revolting cat!
In other words, if the TV moguls want to run a TV show about a gay couple, OK, fine. They shrug. But they don’t have any interest in watching it. And there isn’t a lot of profit in a TV show that hardly anyone wants to watch.

Action For Childrens' Television led to 1970s ecopropaganda and "good friends" pablum. They wanted all cartoon violence (getting hit on the head with anvils, etc) removed. It was replaced with environmental messages from Yogi's Friends, it was replaced with Tom (cat) and Jerry (mouse) walking hand in hand as pals.

The woman behind ACT said that the programs may not be entertaining or even enjoyable but at least they weren't offensive anymore.

101 posted on 05/13/2013 7:05:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: little jeremiah
I’ve read that now Penney’s is putting ads out showing normal people saying things like “forgive us - we’re listenint to you” etc.

When I see the ad saying 'forgive us because George Soros now owns about ten percent of our company' I'll think about it.

102 posted on 05/13/2013 7:19:17 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: little jeremiah

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103 posted on 05/14/2013 11:06:07 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Hey, I just saw this. Thanks. I’ll watch it, then I may forward it to my cartoonist friend.


104 posted on 05/17/2013 8:29:58 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: supremedoctrine
NOTHING HAPPENED IN THE ENTIRE SHOW”.I LOVED IT!

I distinctly remember an episode of Gunsmoke (with Matt & Chester) from the 50s (b/w) that had the marshal and his sidekick out on the trail of a bad guy for several days on the plains of Kansas. They lost the trail and were running out of food and water. Matt admitted to Chester that we can't catch them all, "Let's go back to Dodge." There was no resolution, no arrest, only failure. That was the only show that I can remember where nothing was resolved. It was tremendous and I've never seen it again in reruns.

105 posted on 05/17/2013 8:52:07 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: DeFault User

Apparently , there is a hidden history of television out there alive in the memories of many-—thinking back, compared to the techno-sheen, big budget desperation of most TV product these days, most television back then 40 years plus ago, was at the very least, a more relaxed affair.
I haven’t been much of a TV watcher for many years, but there was one episode of one show, I won’t ever forget, the underrated Dharma and Greg. Dharma happened to see a small storefront for rent, cheap, near the train station in the downtown area......she just up and rented it, with great enthusiasm. She had no idea what it was going to be, but she set up some tables and chairs, brought in some newspapers, and bit by bit, people started coming in and CREATING a viable social space for themselves. Absolutely the best thing I’d seen for years. Doesn’t sound like much, but it still came across as the most intellectually engaging thing ever dared on a network sitcom, as far as I know. And helped on tremendously by the also very underrated comic brio of the beautiful Jenna Elfman/


106 posted on 05/17/2013 9:23:59 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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