{"id":778,"date":"2000-07-14T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2000-07-14T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=778"},"modified":"2008-07-14T19:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:20:01","slug":"ptc-names-roswell-one-of-the-ten-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/07\/ptc-names-roswell-one-of-the-ten-best\/","title":{"rendered":"PTC Names “Roswell” One Of The Ten Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to AllyV for sending this in<\/p>\n


\nConservative group loves “Angel,” hates “Smackdown”<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Steve Gorman<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The family friendly CBS hit ”Touched By an Angel”
\nrepresents the best on network TV, while UPN’s wrestling extravaganza “WWF
\nSmackdown!” should be turned off, a conservative media watchdog group said
\nThursday.<\/p>\n

“Angel” and “Smackdown” claimed the respective No. 1 spots on the fifth
\nannual “Top Ten Best & Worst Shows” lists issued by the Parents Television
\nCouncil (PTC), co-chaired by veteran entertainer Steve Allen.<\/p>\n

The report ranks prime-time network shows from last season found by the
\ncouncil to be the most family friendly and morally grounded and the ones it
\ndeems “the most vulgar and violent.”<\/p>\n

Heading the latter list was a program that has become one of the council’s
\nfavorite targets in recent months, “WWF Smackdown!,” the highest-rated show
\non the fledgling UPN network.<\/p>\n

Noting that the two-hour “Smackdown!” airs at 8 p.m., during TV’s
\ntraditional “family hour,” the group said the show ”exposes children to
\nobscene, raunchy and violent content on a weekly basis.”<\/p>\n

UPN declined to comment on the report, but a spokesman for the World
\nWrestling Federation, Jim Byrne, dismissed the criticism, saying the show’s
\nviewership speaks for itself.<\/p>\n

“It’s not news, and it’s not a surprise,” he said. “It’s the view of one
\nman and a very small minority, versus the more than 20 million people who
\nwatch World Wrestling Federation programming (on network and cable TV)
\nweekly,” he said.<\/p>\n

Overall, the three smallest networks — UPN, Fox and the WB — accounted for
\nthe lion’s share of TV shows the council found the most offensive. Fox and
\nUPN also had four of the 10 “best” shows.<\/p>\n

Ranked Nos. 2 and 3 on the top-10 “worst” list were two Fox shows — the
\nracy cartoon “Family Guy,” which has yet to be picked up for another
\nseason, and “Action,” the short-lived<\/p>\n

Hollywood satire that gained notice for its liberal use of bleeped
\nexpletives.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the 10 “worst” list were teen thriller ”Buffy the Vampire
\nSlayer” (WB), the Emmy-winning legal comedy-drama “Ally McBeal” (Fox), the
\nABC comedies “Norm” and “The Drew Carey Show,” NBC sitcom “Will &
\nGrace” and the WB’s teen drama “Popular.” For all of these the council
\ngenerally objected to the level of sexual innuendo they contained.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum, the council gave its biggest stamp of
\napproval to the moralistic CBS drama “Touched By an Angel,” about three
\nangels who help mortals deal with adversity.<\/p>\n

Ranked at No. 2 was the WB’s squeaky clean family drama ”7th Heaven,”
\nfollowed at No. 3 by the ABC game show phenomenon “Who Wants to Be a
\nMillionaire.”<\/p>\n

The remaining top-10 “best” shows were: “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,”
\nmoving from ABC to WB this coming season, followed by “Early Edition”
\n(CBS), “Moesha” (UPN), “Boy Meets World” (canceled by ABC after seven
\nseasons but moving into reruns on the Disney Channel), “Safe Harbor”
\n(canceled by the WB after one season), “Roswell” (WB) and “Cosby” (just
\ncanceled by CBS).<\/p>\n

Reuters\/Variety <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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