PTC outraged by 'Nip/Tuck' self-mutilation. Rightly so

The Parents Television Council has (rightly so) objected to an episode of "Nip/Tuck" " (surely they've not objected to just one episode). The scene in question, video here, "depicts a woman using an electric carving knife to cut off her own breast."

Not content with depictions or descriptions of bestiality, incestuous necrophilia, or blood-soaked stabbings, the narcissistic sociopaths behind the production and distribution of Nip/Tuck have chosen to establish yet another low-point in the history of television. Tuesday’s episode portrayed sickening and bloody images of a woman who takes a mastectomy into her own hands in the crowded lobby of a doctor’s office.

... Most Fortune-500 advertisers who have purchased advertising on Nip/Tuck in prior years are no longer doing so, and we believe their rationale is that the program’s content does not reflect well on their corporate brands,” Winter concluded. PTC President Tim Winter said.

[The Live Feed via The Hollywood Reporter]

emily | 5:18 PM | The impact of TV series on society |
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