Today’s Lady News: Fox Won’t Broadcast “Family Guy” Episode About Abortion
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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10:50AM, Tuesday July 28th 2009
- Fox will not broadcast a “Family Guy” episode dealing with abortion. In a statement released yesterday, Fox said they “fully support the producers’ right to make the episode,” called “Partial Terms of Endearment,” and the producers can distribute it however they want. [The Hollywood Reporter]—How long before this banned episode hits the web? We’re curious to see it!
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Meet The Press it will take “the right woman” to become President and she’d love for that woman to be a Democrat. [Jezebel] Translation: Snowball’s chance in hell, Sarah Palin.
- Speaking of Palin, she stepped down as governor of Alaska on Sunday, because that’s what’s best for Alaska or something. [LA Times] —Something tells me this isn’t the last we’ll be seeing of her, though.
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CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 10:13 am: [report]
WTF, they had the episode about the “Prom Dumpster Baby” but no abortion episode. Shame on you FOX.
Riley
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 11:03 am: [report]
Fox still has to worry about the money coming in. Sponsors, in the end, decide what their money will be spent on and what time ads will be shown. I don’t blame them for not wanting to throw money at an episode about abortion.
Fox still takes a lot of risks on the shows they pick up. A lot more than the other big networks.
PinkRanger
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 11:21 am: [report]
Family Guy seriously blows nowadays anyway. I hate that their attempt with such an “edgy” episode being foiled is only going to get them more press coverage and interest. They used to be edgy and challenging, now they’re just cheap shock laughs with no plot. Seriously, why does every single episode have a rape joke in it? It’s gotten old, and it’s neither funny, nor clever.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 11:33 am: [report]
@Riley: They may risk a lot, but they know nothing about what is good. Futurama, Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, Dougie Howser M.D. to name a few.
Riley
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 12:21 pm: [report]
They cut poor-performing shows, numbers do not lie.
However, Firefly and Futurama had enough of a following to either be picked back up or get a movie-deal. Firefly was not given a real chance before given the axe; Futurama just did not perform as well as they wanted. Simply costs too much to run a poor-performing scripted show.
What is good is subjective and the bottom line trumps good programming every time. Hence the overwhelming reality TV and cop shows - monkeys write the scripts and the rest of the show is cheap for reality tv, and nodoby has to think too hard for a cop show.
I’d rather watch static than another jogger find a corpse or vote on who is the biggest pathetic obese singer.