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Parents Council Freaks Over Gossip Girl Threesome

Urges local affiliates to preempt the program

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 4, 2009 10:27 AM CST

(Newser) – The Parents Television Council is on the warpath, this time over news that the upcoming episode of Gossip Girl will feature a threesome. The group has sent a letter to CW affiliates warning that they’ll be “complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films,” unless they pre-empt the program.

The letter says that the local affiliates have the right to censor the broadcast, citing an FCC ruling that local stations can bump shows that are “unsuitable or contrary to the public interest.” The CW declined to comment.

In this television episodic image released by The CW, Blake Lively is shown in a scene from Gossip Girl.
In this television episodic image released by The CW, Blake Lively is shown in a scene from "Gossip Girl."   (AP Photo/The CW,Giovanni Rufino)
Actress Leighton Meester is shown on the set of Gossip Girl, Monday, March 16, 2009, in New York.
Actress Leighton Meester is shown on the set of "Gossip Girl", Monday, March 16, 2009, in New York.   (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
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COMMENTS
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Snarfeh
Nov 6, 2009 2:41 AM CST
They want Big Brother until it's socialism in their minds.
kyleleitch
Nov 5, 2009 10:14 AM CST
Oh my god!!! Sexuality isn't as black and white, man and woman, two people only, through the sheets as the Parents' Television Council would have us think! I'd bet a lot that this council isn't representative of 90% of the nation's parents.
Cat-Lover
Nov 5, 2009 9:09 AM CST
The best sex I've ever had was a 3-way in the Fairmont Hotel in Denver, Colorado. I was hoping for a 5-way, but some people can really be prudes!

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