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In the reality genre, which is built on notoriety, what does it take for a network to shut down production on a series? Pretty much nothing. The dissolution of a marriage in front of million of viewers and eight kids didn’t stop TLC from finding a way to continue “Jon & Kate Plus Eight,” whose latest reincarnation is a series of “Kate Plus Eight” specials. And it was the cops, not A&E, that halted filming on “Steven Seagal: Lawman” on Wednesday following the filing of a sexual harassment and sexual trafficking lawsuit against him. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office where Seagal is a reserve deputy cited the legal case as a distraction for the department. For the producers, that’s just good TV.
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Seagal’s hypocricy, as the angel of righteous vengeance, will make his alleged crimes the greatest in history. White slavery, kidnapping, rape. Will our children ever believe in “Hard to Kill” again?
Never thought I’d be lusting after the FCC. But if Seagal, those repulsive Gosselins, Jasmine Fiore’s murderer/husband and many others were on broadcast TV networks – which must adhere, even if barely, to FCC community standards rules because of their O&Os’ licenses – they’d be gone. Cable nets can get away with murder (literally, as we’ve seen) because they have no one to answer to except their big media owners. Years ago when Arnold was in his first gubernatorial race, the broadcast networks had to avoid any entertainment programming that even gave him a minute’s exposure or else their CA local stations would have to give equal time to every other candidate on the ballot (including the stripper). But one of the cable nets used his promotional value and ran weekend marathons of Arnold movies – with no requirement to black them out in CA. Did TBS or TNT or whatever help him get elected? That’s certainly a possibility. Do the viewers know the difference these days between channel 5 and channel 50 on their cable box? Not at all.