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Catholic League president William Donohue delivered the following letter today to ABC Sports director Howard Katz: Mr. Howard Katz Executive Director, ABC Sports ABC Television Network 47 W. 66th Street New York, NY 10023 Dear Mr. Katz: I am requesting that you cancel the scheduled performance of Penn & Teller during the pre-game segment of the Super [...]
In many of today's major newspapers (e .g., New York Times, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune), ABC has a promotional ad for its show, "Nothing Sacred." It quotes four priests who have made favorable comments about the show. William Donohue offered his thoughts on the ad today: "There are more than 50,000 priests in the [...]
ABC has announced that "Cracker," the show that has followed "Nothing Sacred" all season, is being canceled; production has stopped on the show. "Nothing Sacred," which has had ratings almost as bad as "Cracker," has survived, though it will not be shown in February. William Donohue took the news this way: "The Catholic League didn’t need [...]
The announcement that Disney is planning to acquire Capital Cities/ABC is not looked upon favorably by the Catholic League. Given the Disney-Miramax movie "Priest," which slammed Catholicism, and given the Miramax-Excalibur movie "Kids," which is so sexually exploitative of adolescents that it was released unrated-after first receiving an NC-17 rating- the news that Disney is purchasing [...]
Bill Donohue comments on last night's first episode of the Disney/ABC miniseries, "When We Rise": Catholics in America make up about 25 percent of the population. Yet when it comes to negative stereotypes of religion, Hollywood targets us almost 100 percent of the time. Nowhere is this more true than with gay-themed entertainment. The hostility shown [...]
Two ABC affiliates, WABC in New York and WCVB in Boston, have admitted that they ran unauthorized ads for the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." On September 25, WABC-TV ran an ad for Chrysler-Plymouth that was never ordered by the auto manufacturer's ad agency, Bozell. On September 18, WCVB-TV ran an ad for Star Market that was [...]
For weeks, we have heard about how "The Real O'Neals" was "on the bubble," meaning that no decision had been made to renew or cancel the show. ABC recently made it official—the show has been renewed for the new season. "The O'Neals" consistently performed poorly against its competitors on CBS ("NCIS") and NBC ("The Voice"), though [...]
The October 27 episode of ABC’s "Politically Incorrect" triggered a record number of complaints to the Catholic League. The discussion was Halloween and how it relates to paganism. The show’s host, Bill Maher, commented how "Christianity is grafted on paganism"; media critic Holly McClure agreed. Actor Guy Torry then remarked, "Halloween was started in the Catholic [...]
