FEBRUARY 16 "SEX ON T.V."
Viewers are about to see
full-frontal male nudity, heterosexual, homosexual and group sex, and graphic
scenes rarely — if ever — seen on mainstream TV. And that's just on pay-cable
"You need to get eyeballs. You need to be loud," says Spike
programming chief Kevin Kay, who is pairing Blue Mountain with
reruns of HBO's sex-centric Entourage. "Our viewers are
experiencing content on other cable channels or the Web. Movies and video games
are going after this audience, too."
TV's latest sexually
charged offerings add to the current wave of attention-seeking — if less
visually explicit — reality and scripted programs filled with frank themes and
content, such as MTV's hookup-focused reality hit Jersey Shore
Showtime's Secret Diary of
a Call Girl returns Monday with hooker Belle (Billie Piper) looking for
source material for another book through new sexual experiences with clients.
Showtime's aptly titled
Californication recently ended its third season with sex-addicted Hank Moody (David
Duchovny) getting more booty than ever — juggling three women while
pursuing a fourth.
The subject of sex has been
part of the medium almost since its start. But displays of sex, intimacy and
even body parts, for the most part, have been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
In the 1950s, TV couldn't
show married couples sleeping in the same bed. In the '60s, exposing the bellybutton
of I Dream of Jeannie's Barbara Eden was verboten. Brawless jiggles on Charlie's
Angels were considered daring in the '70s. But by the '90s, the expanse of
adult-themed content on premium channels such as HBO and sex-infused music
videos on MTV made baring the derriere of a hefty NYPD Blue cop
acceptable to the masses on ABC. THE JURY IS OUT….SEX SELLS AND WE ARE IN THE
SALES BUSINESS, SO SEX IT IS!!!
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