Top-Sekrit News Update from the Cynopsis
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40cakesComedy Central issued this statement - here in full - late yesterday with no further explanation: "Comedy Central has suspended production on the third season of Chappelle's Show until further notice. All parties are optimistic that production will resume in the near future. The third season will not premiere on May 31st as originally scheduled." Asked the reason behind the abrupt suspension, the network's publicist directed Cynopsis to Chappelle's spokesman, who did not respond to inquiries by press time. Last summer, Chappelle had re-signed with Comedy Central to continue with the show for two more seasons after the series had averaged 2.2 million A18-49 viewers during the 2004 season.
Strange.
And now, dueling banjos.
"People want parents to have more control over the TV!"
"No, they want the government to have tighter control!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Uh-huh!"
As the debate rages on about TV program content, censorship and indecency and what the role of the government should be in all this, a new coalition called TV Watch has set up shop in NYC. TV Watch opposes government control of TV programming content and instead advocates parental controls, which includes program content ratings, blocking technologies, and providing parents/care takers with the right to select what is good or not for their family. Backed up a host of media companies, including NBC Universal, Viacom, NewsCorp., and a host of legal experts, academics, business leaders and entertainers, TV Watch burst out of the gate yesterday with the findings of a national poll indicating while the American public cares about content, it is also in favor of parental responsibility versus "government control." Findings include an 8:1 ratio of respondents who say "more parental involvement” is a better solution to keeping kids from seeing adult content than increasing government control. The national survey was conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates and the Luntz Research Companies, the complete findings are available at the TV Watch website: http://www.televisionwatch.org .
The strong response from Parents Television Council president L. Brent Bozell to the formation of TV Watch was published on the PTC website's home page: "This supposed 'coalition' needs to be taken – and dismissed – for what it is: a collection of random citizen and public policy groups that have simply been hired and paid for by the networks to do their dirty work. Some of these organizations, like the American Conservative Union and Americans for Tax Reform have never given a moment's thought to the suffocating sewage coming from the entertainment industry. That in and of itself is shameful. But now, suddenly, they care? It's a laughable proposition to think that this hired gun coalition will have any impact whatsoever on the ongoing debate over decency and the public airwaves." More at the PTC website: http://www.parentstv.org/ There you will also find the dueling research from Pew Research Center indicating that "75% of the 1,505 adults polled from March 17-21 would like to see tighter enforcement of government rules on broadcast content, particularly when children are most likely to be watching; 60% want broadcast TV indecency standards extended to cable TV; and 69% want higher fines for media companies."
In case you didn't know, I side with TV Watch myself.
And that's your brief for the day.
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Strange.
And now, dueling banjos.
"People want parents to have more control over the TV!"
"No, they want the government to have tighter control!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Uh-huh!"
As the debate rages on about TV program content, censorship and indecency and what the role of the government should be in all this, a new coalition called TV Watch has set up shop in NYC. TV Watch opposes government control of TV programming content and instead advocates parental controls, which includes program content ratings, blocking technologies, and providing parents/care takers with the right to select what is good or not for their family. Backed up a host of media companies, including NBC Universal, Viacom, NewsCorp., and a host of legal experts, academics, business leaders and entertainers, TV Watch burst out of the gate yesterday with the findings of a national poll indicating while the American public cares about content, it is also in favor of parental responsibility versus "government control." Findings include an 8:1 ratio of respondents who say "more parental involvement” is a better solution to keeping kids from seeing adult content than increasing government control. The national survey was conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates and the Luntz Research Companies, the complete findings are available at the TV Watch website: http://www.televisionwatch.org .
The strong response from Parents Television Council president L. Brent Bozell to the formation of TV Watch was published on the PTC website's home page: "This supposed 'coalition' needs to be taken – and dismissed – for what it is: a collection of random citizen and public policy groups that have simply been hired and paid for by the networks to do their dirty work. Some of these organizations, like the American Conservative Union and Americans for Tax Reform have never given a moment's thought to the suffocating sewage coming from the entertainment industry. That in and of itself is shameful. But now, suddenly, they care? It's a laughable proposition to think that this hired gun coalition will have any impact whatsoever on the ongoing debate over decency and the public airwaves." More at the PTC website: http://www.parentstv.org/ There you will also find the dueling research from Pew Research Center indicating that "75% of the 1,505 adults polled from March 17-21 would like to see tighter enforcement of government rules on broadcast content, particularly when children are most likely to be watching; 60% want broadcast TV indecency standards extended to cable TV; and 69% want higher fines for media companies."
In case you didn't know, I side with TV Watch myself.
And that's your brief for the day.
=^..^=
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Date: 2005-05-05 01:43 pm (UTC)My suspicion is Chappelle wants more money. And likely will get it.
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Date: 2005-05-05 04:01 pm (UTC)=^..^=
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Date: 2005-05-05 04:04 pm (UTC)If you can't trust the babysitter to not keep the kids up all night watching crap, maybe the problem is your babysitter. Crazy, I know.
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Date: 2005-05-05 07:03 pm (UTC)::hauls out copy of The Bacchae::
::whacks PTC over the head with it::
Because violence and adult situations in popular entertainment is So. Freaking. New.
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Date: 2005-05-05 11:03 pm (UTC)Are they kidding? If you don't like it don't get cable. I've lived without cable and I've lived without TV. You can do either one if you hate what's on so much.
And I am a parent.