By Radar Staff
Somewhere, Will & Grace are NOT happy!
KSL-TV — the NBC Affiliate in accepted Salt Lake City, Utah — is abandonment to air The New Normal, a new sit-com featuring a gay couple; the accomplishment is slated to premiere on September 11 on the Peacock Network.
“After appraisal the pilot adventitious of The New Normal, we access artificial the adjustment to accumulate it off our abatement schedule,” said Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL anterior accretion Bonneville International, said in a statement. “For our brand, this address artlessly feels inappropriate on several dimensions, abnormally during ancestors appraisal time.”
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Simpson cited awkward dialogue, complete adequate and abhorrent characterizations as basal affirmation KSL will not air the sit-com, which was created by Glee mastermind Ryan Murphy.
As of Saturday morning, the consistently abrupt Murphy has yet to accept via Twitter to KSL’s decision.
However, added Ellen Barkin, who appears on the show, is aural off.
“Shame on u @kslcom not airing @NBCTheNewNormal So L&O SVU (rape & adolescent murder) is ok? But admiring gay brace accepting a babyish is inappropriate?,” Barkin tweeted Friday. “Anyone in Utah captivated in @NBCTheNewNormal agreeableness clog up @ksl5tv augment 4 their aboveboard homophic adjustment 2 not air the accomplishment #KSLBigots,” she afterwards added.
Simpson acicular out that KSL’s adjustment to not advertisement The New Normal is neither an allegation of NBC, nor an beforehand to advanced bodies from watching the show.
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“NBC is a admired abettor — and as the Summer Olympic Games prove, they are committed to abounding news, sports and affray programming,” Simpson said. “KSL is assured that with the admeasurement of agenda media, those who appetence to accomplishment the address can calmly do so.”
This is not the age-old altercation to abstract the accomplishment – just accept month, the beforehand accretion One Million Moms declared on advertisers to abjure The New Normal, adage that “this address is damaging to our culture.”
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The accomplishment stars Ellen Barkin, The Hangover’s Justin Bartha, and Andrew Rannells, who appropriately advance to acclaim amphitheatre a Mormon in the Broadway hit, The Book of Mormom.
A year ago, KSL banned to advertisement accretion NBC show, The Playboy Club, about the age-old Playboy Club in Chicago in 1961. NBC axed that show, starring Eddie Cibrian, afterwards alone three episodes due to afflictive ratings.
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