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

[DazHype]

When will these murder-sanctioning, torture-condoning law-circumventing hypocritical bastards grow the hell up? NYPD Blue showed Dennis Franz crusty tail 1,000 years ago. NEXT!!!

[MajorKong]

I've never understood how it's OK to show Rambo mowing people down with a machine gun but you can't show a woman's body because that's "obscene".

[CrazyLiberal]

These people would let their children watch RoboCop but not the Super Bowl halftime show because they're afraid someone will get a wardrobe malfunction.

[racom]

Only with a twisted, warped, corrupted sense of 'family values'! Only a corrupted mind can view the human body as 'sinful' but the killing, maiming and destruction of the body as OK entertainment. Just gotta love the 'righteous rule makers'.

[johnbkk]

I've never understood this either and as far as I am concerned it quashes all legitimacy they may have.

In this particular clip, I would be far more concerned about my children viewing someone sticking a needle in someone's neck and pointing a gun at another. My kids would just laugh at people running around naked - it's silly and harmless.

Their values are contemptible and suspect.

[cookiebee]

I'd be far more upset to have my child exposed to Anne Coulter fully clothed and speaking.

[CrazyLiberal]

C'mon now! This is total BS! The conservative watchdog group Parents Television Council have got to get a life. These puritan asses are probably jerking off to this Las Vegas episode. They're just a bunch of hypocrites waiting to get caught in adulterous affairs.

[wndrwrthg]

The life they want to get is yours.

[Lazslo]

Simulated nudity on teevee upsets these people, but killing people in Iraq is OK. What a fucked-up country this is.

[Silpat]

Get real, I've seen much worse on T.V.

[Waitaminute]

Did this same self righteous group file a complaint against the O'rielly lynching comment?

These type people who play holy, are the most dangerous type of sexual deviants. Watch out for these holy people. Most have very little if any satifaction sexually, neither does their unlucky pardners. They more then likely do it, in pitch darkness.

That why they are always in other peoples bedroom. They don't want to waste time in their own. Ain't nothing going on in their sex lives.

[siegfried]

I hope it advanced the plot. It's a failure as Gratuitous nudity.

[xcrunner77]

They're right. Enough of the naked women. But bring on the naked men! Those two guys were hotties!

[Mauiloa]

OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD!! OH WHAT THE FUCK!!!

You gotta wonder if this government will ever get past childhood.

[BWonka]

Not as long as the child molesters like Mark Foley are allowed to go after the pages in Congress.

[wmbear]

BUT I HEARD THAT FOLEY WAS...

Er, turning over a new page (sorry, couldn't resist)...­.

[2008thankyou]

The only way you could possibly see anything would be to watch it frame by frame and maybe you might see a blurred body part.

This is what repression, denial and conservatism does to your brain.

This is your brain, this is your brain on conservatism. Scary

[cruisepuppy7452a]

A few years back the same group of people who had this shit fit over someone's nude butt on tv, also wanted any and all nude artwork covered up. They literally wanted to shroud the nude art with black fabrick over anything that showed genetalia. Forget the fact it was ART, that its been around since the rennaissance, and when done tastefully, has also been used in film or tv. Now, these morons who don't even watch tv are pulling the same crap. The worst part, under Bush's and the dems bill that was passed under the wire, this will continue until the public says they have had enough and actually rally's in the streets. If we do nothing, we will have nothing left.

[racom]

Don't you think they should cover the nude bosom on the statue in the Justice building? Oh, dis-regard that, they already did.

[kellygrrrl]

can't we get an activist group to address the real problem: Bad Acting!

[grn1]

Thats why theres nude girls

[BWonka]

Hey, then why not some nudes guys, too.

[enveg01]

PTC - please grow up and stop wasting everyone's time and money. It's really sad you're so pent up that you think a naked body is cause for an outcry. What kind of world do we live in that you can show people getting their heads blown off but can't show a naked human being? Oohh, it's dirty! There's nothing dirty or upsetting about the human body, it's natural... it's anatomy. Come off it and get laid already for heaven's sake.

[jesuswazasocialist]

As an Australian I have noticed that Republicans appear to be obsessed with sex, why is that?

[Ais4Atheist]

insecurities, and when sperm is wasted their god gets quite irate.

[ErnestineBass]

Because so many of them are closeted homosexuals.

[BWonka]

Because no one in their right mind would knowingly sleep with a Rethuglican.

[wmbear]

BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE JUST BASICALLY FUCKED UP...

That is why.

[grisgris]

Because repugs were raised to think sex is dirty and that "nice" repugs don't like sex unless it's for procreation purposes.

[BWonka]

Yeah, the heck with that nudity stuff.
Let's see more pictures of DEAD soldiers! More BLOOD! More Headless corpses!!