Posted on 11/04/2014 8:51:30 AM PST by grundle
For those who say network scheduling isnt a big deal anymore thanks to DVRs, we turn your attention to what happened Thursday night on ABC. In a very jarring transition, the adorable end of the annual special Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown segued into Scandal, which happened to kick off with a very steamy sex scene.
On Monday, the watchdog group Parents Television Council unleashed an angry statement at ABC condemning the abrupt shift in kid-centric programming to a very much not age-appropriate scene. After all, families are known to gather around the cartoon every year and may not have anticipated that they needed to quickly change the channel.
Shame on ABC for putting a peep show next to a playground, PTC President Tim Winter said. In less than 26 seconds we were taken from the Peanuts pumpkin patch to a steamy Scandal sex scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
ABC’s favorite trick is to take some fairly harmless family oriented sitcom (The Middle, The Goldbergs) and slam it into some sort of socially destructive propaganda like Modern Family.
"...That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
;^)
Imagine what they could do with 'The Big Bang Theory'.
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