Posted on 08/05/2011 11:01:31 AM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
In a bright-pink tank top, a light-haired girl crosses the student parking lot of West Beverly Hills High School. She walks past a Bentley and a blue mini-cooper before she stops suddenly as she spots a friend nervously entering his SUV.
"Oh my (goodness), there's Ethan," she says.
She checks out her reflection in a nearby car window, and from the way she fusses with her hair, it's clear she wants to impress him. Smiling broadly, she begins walking toward the teenager's car. Ethan, however, is in no position to say hello. His attention is focused on another teenage girl, who is performing a sex act on him inside the SUV.
The scene is from an episode of the redux "90210," airing Monday nights during the first hour of prime time on the CW network.
Sex-scenes, even sleeping in the same bed, were once verboten on any hour of network television, but they are now everywhere, even during prime time, when many children are watching. That will only increase this fall with new shows like ABC's "Charlie's Angels" retrofit (summed up by one critic as "beautiful women, skimpy costumes, skimpier plots") and "Pan Am" (about 1960s flight attendants and described by one critic as "far sexier than NBC's more provocatively titled 'The Playboy Club'") Fox's "The New Girl" (a teacher gets dumped by her live-in boyfriend and moves in with three unruly and raunchy guys who teach her about life and love), NBC's "Free Agents" (about professional colleagues who have a one-night stand and try to keep their relationship professional despite constant sexual tension between them) and of course the show with the most provocative title, "The Playboy Club" (set in – where else? – a Playboy club).
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"Probe with a pitchfork. If you hit steel, back off.
If you hit mush, keep probing."
The trash at the top of the heap in Hollywood hit mush....so here we are.
I wonder what happens next?
I am an old fuddy duddy and prefer tv form the Golden Age of Television. My cable system has a channel called Antenna TV where you can still watch the Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Circus Boy and Father Knows Best. There is also a lot of crap from the 1970s on which I don’t particularly care for.
How did the Brady Bunch turn into Jersey Shore?
If there is something on TV that you do not want to watch, turn it off. There is no entitlement to a particular type of programming for anyone.
Need more evidence to judge whether new shown should be watched.
Our society has been very sick lately. Not just morally either, we got the government we deserve in a way. I hope it turns around, I really do.
Five years ago I got my father the boxed set of Hogan’s Heroes. My daughter who was 15 at the time started watching them. She said “Daddy, TV was better when you were a kid.”
Give me Peter Gunn, ADAM 12, Dragnet and It Takes A Thief any day over the drivel that's on most channels on most days and nights.
Talk about painting with a broad brush.
How many scripted prime time shows can you name that most parents would feel comfortable watching with young children?
With all due respect, why don’t you all just stop watching the television? They only sell to a willing audience. Dry up the cable fees and let them go broke with their garbage.
Don’t watch TV any more, except with my wife.
Same thing for movies.
The only reason for watching these things is to sit close to her with an arm around her.
The next television show I am going to watch for any reason, other than spending time with my wife, is “Thundercats” at 8:30 tonight.
Its a d@mn pity what a wasteland film and TV have become. Two hundred channels and STILL nothing to watch.
DON’T BOTHER ME WITH THIS CRAP! DON’T YOU KNOW IT’S SHARK WEEK?!!
I watch sports, a bit of the History Channel and an occasional movie. Network crap sux, seriously sux.
Why anyone pays to have network television broadcast into their homes these days is beyond me.
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