Advertisers Don't Party With CBS's 'Swingers'.
Broadcasters Pay the Price for Competing With Cable.
Out: Procter & Gamble, and Philips North America.
In: Time/Life Music 30 minute info-mercials.
Why? Lack of viewers, and complaints to the network & affiliates. The seedy show features characters engaged in wife swapping, drug use and other (hindsight-is-20/20) incredibly stupid high risk behaviors.
But, hey. It's only a TV show. Who could possibly be influenced by that?
But, wait. There's more! Others have gotten a few brains cells, plus a clue, and pulled support for some adolescent prime time cartoon called 'Family Guy'.
Geez, louise. Is '30' the new '15'??? Grow up, people. Either that, or stay away from the voting booth.
Finally, it's in movies; it's in music; it's on the echo chamber awards shows: every stiffy's fave - but it'll never happen in this life, plus make you under appreciate those who truly matter - fantasy: bi-curious hotties.
Brent Bozell III writes a good memo to explain that the 'sex-me-up-a-bi-curious-hottie' is just another way to re-package homosexuality. And a surprisingly significant number of young woman are buying into this lie.
The trend has landed on top of the Billboard pop charts and has dominated the top of the i-Tunes download list in the form of Katy Perry's song "I Kissed A Girl." The concept has become so mainstream that she performed her song on Fox's summer series "So You Think You Can Dance." She's also made a cameo appearance on the CBS soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
Exploiting the "bi-curious" trend is also MTV's formula for the ongoing embarrassment of a reality show called "Tila Tequila's Shot at Love," another noxious offering for youngsters offered by that disgusting network. It just finished its second season with a completely predictable "twist." Miss Tequila is supposed to choose her "love" from a cast of men and a cast of women. In the first season, she chose a male, but the real-life, off-camera relationship failed in time for Season Two. The second time around, she picked a girl named Kristy -- but Kristy rejected Tila. Having built her "bi-curious" credentials, Kristy will next pose for Playboy's August issue.
Get a clue, people.
