Seriously? OMG! WTF?

The Parents Television Council called on federal regulators Thursday to fine NBC for "vulgar and obscene" comments by two actresses during Sunday’s broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards.Walking up to the stage to accept a best actress Emmy for HBO’s "Elizabeth I," Helen Mirren commented on her relief that she didn’t go "ass over tit" as she came up the stairs. A few minutes later, Calista Flockhart repeated the phrase before presenting another award.The comments aired before 10 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones, when federal law prevents obscene language on over-the-air broadcasts."It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language — when millions of children were in the viewing audience," Parents Television Council President L. Brent Bozell said in a written statement.The group has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and urged its members in the two time zones to do the same.The show was billed as a live telecast for most of the country, and Bozell criticized NBC for not bleeping out the comments. Two NBC spokeswomen did not return several calls seeking comment. The Emmy Awards were tape-delayed on the West Coast, but Mirren’s comment remained in the broadcast.Congress dramatically raised the stakes for indecency complaints in June, boosting fines tenfold, to a maximum of $325,000 for each violation.The FCC ruled in January 2005 that isolated use of words describing private body parts, including "ass," "penis" and "testicle," were not indecent when they aired as scripted dialogue on shows and movies. But the ruling came during the tenure of former FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell. His successor, Kevin J. Martin, has taken a harder line on indecency.

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In other news the President of the PTC stepped down, now if only we could get the PTC to step down too. These people need lives!

NBC expressed regret Monday for an Emmy Awards comedy skit that included a mock plane crash and aired on the network the evening of a fatal Kentucky jetliner accident."Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday, and to the entire community that has suffered this terrible loss," NBC said in a statement the day after the ceremony (MSNBC is a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft)."In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy," NBC said. "The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television’s most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused."The prerecorded skit was broadcast as part of the live Emmy ceremony just hours after a commuter jet taking off in Lexington, Ky., crashed into a field and burst into flames, killing 49 people. Only a co-pilot survived.Criticism of the sequence appeared on Web sites Sunday night, including the Los Angeles Times’, with a columnist for the paper calling it "cringe-inducing" and "of questionable taste."The airing of the skit, a spoof on the ABC plane-crash drama "Lost," was condemned by the general manager of NBC’s Lexington affiliate, WLEX."It was a live telecast. We were completely helpless," Tim Gilbert was quoted as saying Sunday night on the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Web site. "By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home."The segment, which opened the Emmys, started with host Conan O’Brien boarding a private plane to Los Angeles. Asked by a stewardess if he was nervous about hosting the show, O’Brien answered "Nervous? What could possibly go wrong?"The plane then pitched violently and a crash was implied but not shown. Instead, the skit cut to O’Brien stranded on an island resembling the one in "Lost."

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BTW What is the Genreal Manager doing at home watching the Emmys on a day a plane crashed in his backyard? Maybe because I worked for real TV news stations, but anytime we had a plane crash in our backyards the GM worked through the night and did not go home to watch the Emmys. 

When it happened, we really weren’t sure. We thought we saw Mindy Kaling’s breast pop out of her dress during The Office’s acceptance speech… we alerted friends of ours on the West Coast to see if censors caught wind of said Indian nip… we thought surely Drudge would have a nipple-siren ablaze within the hour… and yet, it seems we were the only ones to catch Kaling’s wardrobe malfunction. And now we would like to share it with you. Best Week Ever Presents: The Most Breast NBC Will Ever Allow On the Air (now with more slo-mo!). More Emmy coverage to follow today… but for now, enjoy.

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You know CBS is going to turn this into the FCC!

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