The Parents Television Council 'call on Congress, the FCC and the federal courts to give cable consumers real choice when it comes to deciding which networks they actually want to purchase.'
- Nov 18, 2014
AceShowbiz - FX takes the heat for opening last week's episode of "Sons of Anarchy" with sex montage. Despite the TV-MA advisory warning before the show, the Parents Television Council slams the network, making the last Tuesday episode an issue that basic cable subscribers should be given a freedom to choose which channels they want to pay for.
The collection of steamy scenes featuring a number of "SOA" characters including Charlie Hunnam's Jax Teller in bedroom romps is blasted by the watchdog group as "the most sexually explicit content we've ever seen on basic cable, content normally found on premium subscription networks like HBO or Showtime."
"It's official: In order to watch cable news, ESPN, Disney or the History Channel, every family in America must now also pay for pornography on FX," PTC president Tim Winter said in a statement. "If FX wants to be like HBO and air this kind of explicit content, then they should become a premium network."
"Families should not be forced to underwrite pornography. Cable Choice is a solution whose time has come, and there could hardly be a better example of it than this," he continued. "We call on Congress, the FCC and the federal courts to give cable consumers real choice when it comes to deciding which networks they actually want to purchase."
FX and show creator Kurt Sutter haven't commented on the backlash, but last year Sutter hit back at the PTC when the group criticized a scene that involved a school shooting. "The PTC - I would imagine these are not evil people, but they're just not very intelligent or intuitive people. ... The fact that these people want to be monitoring what my children watch is terrifying ... whenever that stuff crosses the line into censorship, it's just scary, not just on a creative level but on a personal level," Sutter said back then.
