Agenda to push homosexuality on network TV fails

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Americans still don't have the mental preparedness to resist the more subversive form of homosexual propaganda, but they fully reject the blatant faggotry that the media execs are trying to cram down the average network teevee viewer.

Op-ed: Gay Sitcoms Are Failing Because They're Bad

While this writer commends NBC for taking chances on gay sitcoms, he argues that the network's strategy of making them overly silly and broad helps no one.

Last week's news that the Ellen DeGeneres–produced sitcom One Big Happy had been removed from NBC's comedy lineup after only six episodes left network TV's gay-centric slot yet again unfilled. This comes after a string of unsuccessful attempts, all by NBC, to fill that creative representational gap, after the cancellation of Ryan Murphy's The New Normal in 2013 and the Sean Hayes vehicle Sean Saves the World in 2014. Now that we're 0 for 3 in recent attempts at gay network sitcoms, a burning question remains: What's the problem, network TV?

While LGBT-centric content has crept into the programming of cable and Web-based platforms (most notably with HBO's recently canceled Looking, Amazon's Transparent, and Netflix's double-header Orange Is the New Black and the just-inaugurated Grace and Frankie), network TV has been decidedly more bashful about placing LGBT issues front and center in their programming.

Another problem, of course, is that each of those attempts has been a ratings failure. This could be due to a number of reasons — poor scheduling, misguided production, bad writing — but it's hard to believe that it's simply because American audiences aren't ready for a certain kind of diversity in their living rooms.

In other words, gay-themed shows can't focus on gay issues if they want to be successful.