Conservative Watchdog Group Files Complaint Over Nudity On NBC's "Las Vegas"

On the heels of the FCC attempting to fine ABC affiliates for airing a shot of naked buttocks (which, incidentally, CNN aired by accident during the Serbian riots earlier this week), NBC is under fire from the conservative watchdog group Parents Television Council for allowing naked women to be seen on last week's episode of "Las Vegas."

From the Hollywood Reporter:

The PTC said they filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over NBC's Feb. 15 broadcast of the "Vegas" season conclusion. In the episode, three shadowy naked women are shown on a casino's security monitor.

The complaint comes a day after ABC appealed a $1.2 million FCC fine levied for a nude scene in a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue." "Vegas" typically airs at 10 p.m., but the PTC noted the show runs at 9 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones.

PTC President Tim Winter accused NBC of trying to test the government regulatory agency in the wake of the "NYPD" decision.

"NBC seems eager to test the FCC's resolve to fine stations for violating broadcast decency laws," said Winter. "It's like they're trying to find some sort of standard for making it through FCC's guidelines."

Read more about the complaint at the Hollywood Reporter, or watch the clip below and judge for yourself whether it should have been aired:

Comments

[Guitarsandmore]

hmmmm. Now I wish I had seen that episode. It looks good.

[Indedave]

Unleash the mullahs!

[Knowledgeseeker]

I Don't see anything wrong with this NBC Shot
conservative need to get a life and worry about the Immoralities that goes on in the churches on a regular basis. If they don't like what the see on the TV, turn it off or change the channel its simple as that.

[KPinSEA]

Hillary to the left of them, the PTC to the right ...... what's a poor peacock to do???

[weslenforever]

They gave up the right to be the MORAL POLICE when they put GWB and Vlad the Impaler Cheney in office. The Decency laws are violated every time we have to look at their faces and those of their partners in crime. While they are crying about this innocuous scene, they are singing the praises of torture, obstruction of justice, 4000 flag draped coffins, 900 plus lies to the American people in the name of GREED, picking up sex partners in mens rooms, making rape and murder legal if you are a Bushie. You all know the drill. Distract from scrutiny. Make big fusses about NOTHING so no one will be paying attention when the REAL BAD STUFF happens.

[eastcoastprogressive]

Who's going to complain about the violence?

That's what I want to know.

This silly whining over nude shadows by people who are afraid of their own bodies in the mirror is pathetic.

[helonias]

Well I'm sure baby Jesus was breast fed and likes titties.

[Signpainter]

Conservatives, it would seem, are born with a natural instinct to identify obscenity. "NonCons" (I'm referring to the rest of the human world) do not have this innate ability and must simply stand aside whilst Conservatives sift through all the art, literature, song lyrics, dance, poetry etc. A Conservative can flush smut out of the brush where the rest of us can not see it. He or she can point to the exact spot on a library shelf where a poem might be hiding, ready to corrupt you. Your own instincts are unreliable; get a Conservative. A good Conservative is like a good hunting dog, but with a nose for pornography.

[grisgris]

"NonCons"? I like it!

[MelCarnahan]

The American Taliban must be stopped.

[SlinkyTWF]

Amen.

[SemperVeritas]

That omnipresent on-screen advertisement above the peacock logo (lower left) is what's *really* disgusting.

What next? A coke can above the NBC logo for the entire program??

Better yet: Fly-in, fly-out coke cans, a la TBS. Or entire segments wrapped around a built-in product placement, like a certain grocery store sitcom on TBS (not very funny)....

[mpgarr]

This is just another case of these "conservatives" being so concerned about things that don't have any bearing on anything real at all--it's just a diversion from them having to deal with the things that really matter--like our currency is going in the tank along with the economy--and I don't just mean the economic problems we face due to just a periodic economic downturn--but the fact that we are gutting our economy structurally, we have a war going on that we have lost and is going to impact the future of the nation and many other similar REAL issues--not some scenes of women streaking in a fictional Las Vegas casino on a moderately rated television show. Those scenes are not going to harm the Republic.

[Rivcuban]

To conservatives it's OK to massacre tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi children, but showing a little skin on TV is immoral. What the hell is wrong with this country?

[trex67]

Jesus, who watches this crap? And if you're watching a show about Las Vegas, wouldn't you expect it to be crass? And unless there are visible nipples, the FCC can't do anything... Or can they? It's difficult to keep track of the rules when the Puritans are in charge of censorship, here in the "land of the free."

I'm sure it would have been fine if, rather than naked, they had been toting M-16s and merely shooting people. Nothing wrong with that. Good American values.

[OneWoman]

Amen. That's how I feel when I go into a Blockbuster store. You see, they are a 'family-friendly' business, i.e. no porn. I guess watching consenting adults having sex is just plain wrong; but if you want to watch a movie wherein a woman is sadistically raped and tortured, well, they have LOTS of those to choose from. As a matter of fact, pictures of half-naked, bloodied and screaming women line the shelves for my children to view each time we go (actually, I dont take them any more for precisely that reason). I guess 'family-friendly' means you cannot have sex without the violence!

[maxfusion]

Doesn't matter, Nader is in the race. Whaaaaa Ha Ha

[research]

For the perverted Rethugs, it's no fun if it's legal!