Erin R. Brown at NewsBusters:
Fall means back to school, end of summer vacations, and exciting new television for those bored with “The Bachelor” and “Survivor.”
But among this year’s crop of brand new television series, a rather “sex”y pattern has emerged. Shows about horny high school geeks, the 1960s’ playboy bunnies, and navigating the pitfalls of a one-night-stand with your coworker, are themes slated to appear on screens across America in a matter of days.
One of the adult themed shows to air this fall is “Free Agents,” a sitcom set to debut on September 14, on NBC that follows the lives of two PR professionals, after they have a drunken one-night stand. The coworkers (played by Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn) attempt to steer through the messy complications of a professional relationship in the aftermath. While this could make for some funny awkward moments, an alcohol-fueled evening full of regret is just a sad premise for a series.
NBC’s “The Playboy Club” is a little more obvious from the title about the show’s content. Set to air on September 19, 2011, “The Playboy Club” “centers on the Bunnies and patrons of the original Playboy Club in 1960’s Chicago,” according to the Internet Movie Database page for the show.
But the show has already stirred up controversy as critics like the Parents Television Council called it a “blatant attempt to obliterate any remaining standards of broadcast decency.” Morality in Media created an online petition to discourage viewers to from watching the show. Even famous liberal feminist Gloria Steinem has echoed the calls for a boycott. The real Playboy Club, she said, was “the tackiest place on earth.”
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