TV's "The Pl-yb-y Club" not doing so well in the ratings

[Disillusioned]

I have a particular hatred for the mag PB and its founder, ever-casual, smoking jacket attired, HH, so it was with absolute glee that I found his new series "The Pl-yb-y Club" tanking in its ratings and being comic in trying to sell the PB lifestyle to the current viewing audience. I hate this rag because it is what introduced my h to his change in values from the highly moral man I knew into a man who began to see women as things, and men as entitled to look at women as things. It is what started his fall from taking the higher road that his genes and believer's morality had designed him to be, to a place where someone I did not know existed. I offer the following, again from an article related to Dr. Judith Reisman, who did testify before Congress in 2004, of the dangers of the changes in the brain of p users.

| Posted: October 1, 2011
[h=2]When P…boy s-x doesn't sell[/h] [h=3]Advertisers, viewers abandoning new show in droves[/h] [h=3]From World Net Daily[/h] By Michael Carl
September 29, 2011
NBC's new series "The Pl-yboy Cl-b" is tanking in the ratings and hemorrhaging advertisers at an extraordinary rate.
Bill Gorman of TV By the Numbers writes that the networks have a .7% cancellation threshold for “The Pl-yb-y Club”.
According to Lynette Rice of Entertainment Weekly the already drooping show lost more ground in week 2.
"And more bad news for 'The Pl-yb-y Club.' The show earned a mere 1.3/3 - down 19 percent. Ladies and gentlemen, do we have our first casualty of the new season?" Rice wrote.
That's only .6 points away from the threshold.
In its first week, the program scored only 1.6 rating in the 18-49 age group.
Morality in Media spokesman Lesley Bateman said the dramatic ratings drop is developing because the program's premise is offensive to the public.
"We believe that people don't find the show's underlying theme appealing - that is, that 'women get ahead in life through s-xu-l objectification.' This should be offensive to every woman in America," Bateman said.
Psychologist and culture critic Judith Reisman believes the ratings drop may be because people are becoming more aware of the criminal nature of the sex industry.
"I would think that it's due to the increasing awareness of the growing sexual trafficking in women and children, especially from foreign countries," Reisman said.
Morality in Media is running the "Close the Club" campaign, a project to urge parents and concerned citizens to contact the show’s advertisers and request that they pull their ads from “Pl-yb-y Club.”

Bateman said that the program is succeeding because thousands have contacted NBC in response to the campaign, and the advertisers "are getting the message."
Even though Energizer batteries, Boston's Emmanuel College and Weight Watchers still have ads on the program's website, Bateman reports that Kraft Foods, the UPS Store, Lenovo, Subway, Sprint, PF Chang's and Campbell's Soup have pulled their advertising because the companies don't want their name stained.
"Corporate America knows the importance of a good brand name - and apparently many companies understand that Americans like doing business with companies that hold values near to their own," Bateman said.
Bateman noted that several years ago a Time Magazine poll found that 68 percent of respondents believed the entertainment industry had lost touch with viewers' moral standards.
Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Goodman says does not live up to any of its intended objectives.
"It's hard to imagine there's still an allure to the '60s Pl-yb-y Club swinging lifestyle, but if there is, 'Pl-yb-y Club' hasn't illuminated it," Goodman wrote.
Goodman said that "in attempting to show that it wasn't all glamour inside - a fair assumption and one the writers should be given credit for noting - the show undercuts what it seems to be trying hard to sell: that the club was a place for female empowerment."
Bateman agreed with Goodman's assessment and added that not only is the dialogue exploitive, it's also plainly bad.
"The dialogue is built upon justifying the show's exploitation of women. It's hard to create quality dialogue with that goal in mind," he said.
Bateman said "the public senses that the dialogue is simple-minded."
"It's hard not to laugh at lines like, 'In my bunny suit, I'm in total control,' and 'I want to be a Pl-ym-te because I want to show people that I can do big things,'" he said.
The public's outrage over Pl-yboy Cl-b is appropriate, but the pornography industry isn't going to give up that easily on its effort to become mainstream. She said the reduced price for Playboy magazine is an example. An issue now costs 60 cents, a price even children can afford, notes Dr. Reisman.
"Playboy is aiming its toxins at ever younger children, assuming that this is their future market for both buyers and sellers of sex," Reisman said. "The need to keep their casino going in Las Vegas. They've prostituted women to get people to Vegas."
Reisman said that the whole controversy over the NBC television series is a symptom of a deeper social problem.
"Indeed, our modern 'hook-up' culture is admittedly not their grandparents' culture, the 'Greatest Generation' that saved the world," she said.
She noted, however, that the practice of children "sending their naked s-x pics to friends is even getting some liberals nervous."
"The forced vaccinations of our children so that they can be had for s-x is similarly ringing warning bells in the brains of those off the dumbing down grid," Reisman said. "N-ked parades in our public streets and parks under the pretense of 'freedom,' while children are increasingly s-xu-lly coarsened and violated could be resonating with a shaken American public."
She warned, nevertheless, that "with judges and legislators capitulating to politically correct rants on all things s-xu-l, we have a great deal to do if we are to survive as a free people."

[burnedout]

I'm happy to report I haven't seen the show. However, I was shocked at how coarse "30 Rock" was last time I saw it. I hate NBC for a wide variety of reasons.

[Hibiscus]

The PB muck was canceled immediately after the third episode, in early Oct. They showed reruns of something else for a while, but it's now been permanently replaced with "Rock Center" - a news show lead by Brian Williams. : )

[Hopeful]

Thanks Hibiscus....that is music to my ears.

[widowgirl]

The commercial for that channel used to infuriate me. It had a woman stumbling upon it, not knowing her husband had ordered it, and they end up watching it together with big smiles on their faces. I nearly pulled the satellite down off the roof.Glad to hear it was a failure!