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JamesG · 12-13-2012, 03:18 PM

Watchdog Group Blasts Violence on AMC's "The Walking Dead"
12/13/2012
by Lesley Goldberg

After taking aim at Howard Stern and the short-lived "The Playboy Club", watchdog group the Parents Television Council has found a new target: AMC's "The Walking Dead".

The group, a nonpartisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment, has called on the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to change the zombie drama's TV-14 "misrating," calling out the "hundreds" of scenes of "grisly murder" both of the living and undead featured on the ratings behemoth.

"Throughout its run, the AMC program The Walking Dead has featured some of the most graphic and brutally intense violence and gore imaginable," PTC president Tim Winter said, also taking issue with the show's use of profanity.

"The intensely violent content has included depictions of the cleaving of human skulls with a machete, extreme gun violence including graphic depictions of blood and brains splattering after gunshot wounds, and the use of a sharpened human bone as a weapon to stab another character."

"Clearly, this is content appropriate to an adult-only audience, but AMC has rated every single episode of The Walking Dead as suitable for a 14-year-old child," he wrote in a letter to PGMB chairman Gordon Smith, noting that PTC members have written thousands of letters to the cable network urging them to reconsider the rating but getting no response.

"We call on you and the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to immediately take any necessary steps to insure that this program is rated accurately, appropriately and for the audience for which the show is designed," he wrote.

"For the TV Ratings system to work as it is designed, the board and you as its chairman can do no less."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...iolence-402047

AKA · 12-13-2012, 06:03 PM

1. It's a cable show.

2. It airs at 10 pm EST on a school night, when children should be in bed. Granted those of us in the Pacific Time Zone who watch AMC's HD feed get the show at 7:00, but that's only because AMC hasn't rolled out a PST version of their HD channel yet.

3. Anyone who subscribes to AMC can block this content if they so choose, whether by channel, title or rating.

4. If a parent wants to let their 14-year-old kid watch the show, that's up to them, not the schmucks at the PTC.

5. The PTC is still a joke after all these years.

12-13-2012, 03:18 PM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,121	PTC's After "The Walking Dead" Now *Watchdog Group Blasts Violence on AMC's "The Walking Dead"* 12/13/2012 by Lesley Goldberg After taking aim at Howard Stern and the short-lived "The Playboy Club", watchdog group the Parents Television Council has found a new target: AMC's "The Walking Dead". The group, a nonpartisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment, has called on the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to change the zombie drama's TV-14 "misrating," calling out the "hundreds" of scenes of "grisly murder" both of the living and undead featured on the ratings behemoth. "Throughout its run, the AMC program The Walking Dead has featured some of the most graphic and brutally intense violence and gore imaginable," PTC president Tim Winter said, also taking issue with the show's use of profanity. "The intensely violent content has included depictions of the cleaving of human skulls with a machete, extreme gun violence including graphic depictions of blood and brains splattering after gunshot wounds, and the use of a sharpened human bone as a weapon to stab another character." "Clearly, this is content appropriate to an adult-only audience, but AMC has rated every single episode of The Walking Dead as suitable for a 14-year-old child," he wrote in a letter to PGMB chairman Gordon Smith, noting that PTC members have written thousands of letters to the cable network urging them to reconsider the rating but getting no response. "We call on you and the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to immediately take any necessary steps to insure that this program is rated accurately, appropriately and for the audience for which the show is designed," he wrote. "For the TV Ratings system to work as it is designed, the board and you as its chairman can do no less." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...iolence-402047

12-13-2012, 06:03 PM	#2
AKA Member Forum Star Join Date: Dec 17, 2001 Posts: 15,746	1. It's a cable show. 2. It airs at 10 pm EST on a school night, when children should be in bed. Granted those of us in the Pacific Time Zone who watch AMC's HD feed get the show at 7:00, but that's only because AMC hasn't rolled out a PST version of their HD channel yet. 3. Anyone who subscribes to AMC can block this content if they so choose, whether by channel, title or rating. 4. If a parent wants to let their 14-year-old kid watch the show, that's up to them, not the schmucks at the PTC. 5. The PTC is still a joke after all these years.