TV Trends Brought to you by the Parents Television Council

In this new column, the Parents Television Council seeks to keep parents and other viewers informed about harmful or questionable prime-time programming.

2008

11.07.08 CBS Breaks Its Decency Pledge: Part 2 of 2

10.31.08 CBS Breaks Its Decency Pledge: Part 1 of 2

10.24.08 Fox, Foul Language and the First Amendment

10.17.08 The Fall 2008 Season: More Strange Sex

10.10.08 The Fall 2008 Season: Teens Having Sex

10.03.08 Broadcast Networks: More Gore in Store For Viewers

09.19.08: Britain pushes Gossip Girl envelope with Skins

09.12.08: Cable Continues Its Downward Crawl

09.05.08: The Fall Season Debacle Begins

08.22.08: Comedy Central Roasts Should Burn

08.15.08: Two and a Half Men: Half-Hearted, Half-Witted and All Bad

08.01.08: Death Knell Sounds for Swingtown

07.25.08: TV’s Sexist Breast Obsession

07.17.08: Shows Safe for Kids…Or Not?

07.11.08: BET: Bad Entertainment for Teens

07.03.08: Take MyNetworkTV – Please!

06.27.08: Summer Brings Little Fun to Prime Time

06.19.08: Thursdays at 10: No Time For Children

06.13.08: Swingtown: CBS Celebrates Sex and Drugs

06.06.08: CBS’ Schedule Suicide

05.30.08: Public Tuning Out TV Critics - Part 2

05.23.08: Public Tuning Out TV Critics - Part 1

05.15.08: Fox Massacres Mother's Day

04.25.08: Prime Time Goes to Pot

04.18.08: TV Encourages Disrespect...And Violence

04.11.08: FX Wallows in Dirt

04.04.08: TV Promos: Not for Children

03.21.08: Audiences Hunger for Decent TV

03.14.08: Broadcast TV Pushes the Sex Envelope

03.07.08: CBS: selling serial killers to kids

02.29.08: Reality TV Hits Bottom

02.22.08: Dexter‘s Depth of Depravity

02.15.08: A Valentine to Television…As It Was

02.07.08: TV’s Writers on Strike, But Sex Continues

02.01.08: Fox Faces its Moment of Truth

01.25.08: NBC Joins the TV Sex Parade

01.18.08: Bloody Monday Nights: Fox’s Violent One-Two Punch

01.10.08: TV Stubs Out Smoking

01.02.08: The Ogre That Changed Christmas Specials?

2007

12.21.07: Television writers hate religion

12.14.07: Decent Sitcom Content: An “Alien” Concept?

12.07.07: Repurposing: To Whose Purpose?

11.30.07: Gift Ideas for TV Fans: Entertainment Choices During the Writer’s Strike

11.22.07: Fox’s Family Guy: For Children?

11.16.07: NBC’s Comedy Hit: My Name Is Earl Raunchy

11.09.07: Fox’s Foul Family Hour

11.02.07: Nip/Tuck = Noxious/Television

10.29.07: A “Family” Halloween?

10.19.07: Family Hour Follies

10.12.07: The Bizarre Sex Fall Season Continues

10.08.07: The 2007 Fall Season: Adventures in Perversity