KSL’s rejection of gay sitcom ‘The New Normal’ doesn’t bother NBC
By Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Jan 30 2013 01:43 pm • Updated 1 hour ago
The cast and producers of "The New Normal" don’t spend a lot of time worrying about KSL. But management at the Utah station worried a lot about "The New Normal" when it decided not to carry the show.
"It’s one station, and we’re not going to get weighed down by that," said Andrew Rannells, who stars as half a gay couple having a baby with a surrogate in the sitcom. "We were happy to find a home in Salt Lake on another station."
The gentiles at Channel 30 will allow this show. This arrangement has worked in the past to keep Saturday Night Live off the Church's flagship TV station.
The New Normal is lame. KSL should just air it. It won't make it past 2 seasons. The writing is horrible. The comedy is horrible. What's funny is KSL didn't seem to have a conscience when they aired Will & Grace and Friends which had tons of "inappropriate" content. It seems like a real arbitrary policy that KSL has when they decide what is appropriate to air.
An X-rated TV prank has left the prime minister of Serbia feeling a little overexposed after he was flashed by a glamorous presenter during an interview.
The country's Socialist party leader Ivica Dačić was midway through a discussion about Balkan politics when the young woman, wearing a particularly short mini dress, uncrossed her legs to reveal she wasn't wearing any underwear.
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...by a candid camera show called Nemoguca Misija - which translates as 'Mission Impossible'.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
moksha wrote:Ludwigm, I was trying to imagine how Mitt Romney would have reacted to this Sharon Stone-like prank.
Romney? Who cares... Please try to imagine Packer!
by the way
Serbia PM orders inquiry into Basic Instinct fake TV interview Aide to PM Ivica Dačić said the country had been mocked by the stunt
'The whole case will be fully investigated,' Dačić's national security adviser, Ivica Toncev, was quoted as telling the Serbian daily Blic. 'This was Serbia being mocked, not the prime minister. The prime minister's office will not let this go unpunished,' said Toncev. His office did not respond to requests for comments on the interview or the investigation. ... The episode, set-up and filmed by a private Serbian production company, was not aired and the trailer for its prank television show Nemoguca Misija (Mission Impossible) was removed from its website. The interviewer, a former model from Croatian Playboy, said Dačić was a 'real man'. 'I have only good words for the prime minister,' Blic quoted 35-year-old Branka Knezevic as saying. 'He is strong and sturdy, a real man for that position. He's exactly who should lead the country.'
"He is strong and sturdy, a real man for that position." Does this fit to Romney or Packer?
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
moksha wrote:Could it be that this show was just too gay to pass muster? Another possibility is that someone informed President Packer about this shows content.
Do you think Packer might have been worried about the fact that he might be tempted to watch and imagine what life he might have had?
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. - O'Sensei