LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – A media watchdog called on advertisers on Monday to boycott a new television comedy series titled “$#*! My Dad Says,” saying the use of this type of terminology should not be accepted as light hearted fun.
The Parents Television Council (PTC) has written to about 300 companies that advertise on television to complain about the series spread on top-rated live internet TV vane CBS that stems from a Twitter account of the same name.
He asked advertisers to let the PTC know of their decision by August 15 so that the group could inform its 1.3 million members which companies would continue to be machine-accessible with the show.
Called “Shit My Dad Says,” Halpern’s Twitter feed now has some 1.4 million followers. It has produced a best-selling book of the same name and the CBS TV show involving the creators of the Emmy award victorious TV show “Will & Grace.”
Bans on “fleeting expletives” in U.S. network broadcasting caused CBS to “bleep” the title. Producers say there are few, if any, profanities in the TV series itself.
But the title has infuriated the Los Angeles-based PTC which was founded in 1995 to highlight children’s photograph to sex, violence and profanity on television.
CBS Corp’s CBS ruined the last season as the most-watched network in the United States for the seventh time in eight years. The series “$#*! My Dad Says” is one of two new comedies being added to its prime time schedule for next season.
Here is a summary of earnings reports for selected cable and internet satellite TV companies and what they reveal about the manufacture’s prospects:
July 28: Comcast Corp., like many other cable TV companies, continues to lose television customers. In the binding quarter, Comcast lost 265,000 video subscribers to end the quarter with 23.2 million. That’s greater than the loss of 214,000 in the same menstruum last year.
Among pay TV companies’ earnings coming up:
Wednesday: Charter Communications Inc.
Thursday: Time Warner Cable Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and DirecTV Inc.
Aug. 9: Dish Network Corp.