ABC: “just coincidence, really” that they are launching 2 shows based on the b-word

[The Straight Story]

ABC has two new ‘Bitch’ shows

PASADENA — Things got bitchy for ABC here Tuesday, and the network couldn’t have been happier, because it’s optimistic the b-word will help sell two of its midseason primetime shows.

Both network officials and cast members expressed high hopes for two more shows built on low behavior.

The first is “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23,” a sitcom starring Krysten Ritter and Dreama Walker. Ritter plays the title character and Walker plays her mark who quickly decides maybe being a b---- isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The second is “GCB,” a drama based on the book “Good Christian Bitches.” Based on five women in Dallas, ABC is hopeful it will fill the comic soap opera void being left at the end of this year by the departing “Desperate Housewives.”

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ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee told TV critics here it’s “just coincidence, really” that the network happens to be launching two shows whose selling point is the b-word.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-01-10/news/30613442_1_abc-lee-character

[Warren DeMontague]

1. aint that a

b****

[JI7]

2. fuck ABC

[Broderick]

3. Will this be alerted and subsequently censored here?

maybe abc should be banned here. Too offensive for some.

[bluerum]

4. Good thing they are not using the B word on du.

They would get banned.

[Odin2005]

5. Boycott ABC!

This is unacceptable!

[roguevalley]

6. unbelievable. The tiny ball brigade is doing programming

at ABC. Another channel I don't watch but for jeopardy.

[MadHound]

7. Given the long, convoluted road a show has to travel, from idea to broadcast,

Yes, it probably is a coincidence.

[saras]

8. They have to. There's money in it.

There are currently more than one successful band with the f-word in the band name. This makes it "interesting" when the band comes to town, everyone's kids want to go because it's that kind of band, they're wildly successful, and the local papers are choking and gagging trying to write about it without using the band's name.

It's just not tolerable for the public to be able to say things that corporations can't say. As long as curses were used as curses, they weren't relevant. Now that they've become ordinary speech to enough people, commerce HAS to take them up.

It's WAY funnier than the whole Louie, Louie thing with the FBI. And that was fucking priceless.

[Jello Biafra]

10. KMFDM comes to mind..........n/t

[The Straight Story]

14. Well, I am sure it will generate some press

Although I don't know too many people who watch network tv any more.

[demtenjeep]

9. stopped watching anything on ABC when they dumped the soaps

best shows are on CBS anyway

[Snake Alchemist]

11. Jay-Z is going to be furious. nt

[The Straight Story]

12. Actually, he claims that poem was not by him and he is still using the word (nt)

[Liquorice]

13. Sad. One day it wll be as unacceptable as the n-word. nt