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

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