Heavy On The Fornication, Please

Let's see if we can figure this out before slipping into the arms of Morpheus. It's bound to be dull, but will it hasten oblivion?

A premium cable channel is about to offer the sheep

fornication-heavy, 13-episode Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premieres Friday, 10 ET/PT), a 300-meets-Caligula epic about the Roman Empire's notorious slave/gladiator.

(Good move w/ the title. Two well known movies: Re-make one & tack the other's name on. It's official: Not an original thought remains in Hollywood.)

USA Today, rather than straight up pimping the project, opts for a remake as well, the "Sex on Telebision: It Sells & It's Naughty" article that's been published at least every other yr. by every dead-tree &/or electronic publisher since the rise of literacy allowed people to read smut at their leisure, the outrage only increasing as radio & the movies arrived. Now it's pictures on the radio, in the living room! And here's a picture of what we can expect.

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Juxtapositions like this, between a screeching ninny on a slippery slope & an egghead who nonetheless has a connection w/ reality & the Bill of Rights:

Critics such as the Parents Television Council decry the mushrooming sexual content. "It's become downright ubiquitous," says council president Tim Winter. "Families are under siege, teenage girls are under siege. You don't know what the cultural impact will be down the road."

Others, such as Fordham University media observer Paul Levinson, say TV merely mirrors life. "It sounds radical, but this is healthy for popular culture," Levinson says. "Mainstream TV has been frozen in a very puritanical position by Congress, the FCC and the Supreme Court — all who don't seem to understand the First Amendment. Sex is part of life. If people are offended, there's a simple remedy: Don't watch."

Commie.

Oblivion, here we are.