Amy and Ephram
Somebody at Channel One loves the WB’s Everwood show on Monday nights. It has been advertised as much as any other TV show on Channel One, with the possible exception of Dawson’s Creek. It is age-inappropriate for high school students, and most certainly for middle school students. Channel One promotes this TV show to children as young as ten. Please see the PTC review of Everwood below.
The two teenagers pictured above have just had sex and it’s no big deal. Channel One shamelessly takes the WB Network’s money and airs commercials for TV shows that make parents very upset. One Tree Hill was another WB show that had large doses of sexual content and alcohol content.
Obligation’s Jim Metrock said, “The WB Network has pushed the envelope with sexual situations in prime time, especially when it comes to young people and sex. These shows wouldn’t be so popular if public schools stopped allowing their ads to run in class. It’s pretty sad when our schools encourage children to watch this type of television.”
From the Parent’s Television Council:
WORST
1. Everwood WB/9:00 Monday – not ranked last season
“With its Norman Rockwell-style opening and small town sensibility, Everwood gives every appearance of being a family drama, but it’s nothing of the kind….
“What makes Everwood problematic is the careless and irresponsible treatment of sexual issues – especially when the teenaged characters are involved. In one story arc from this season, high schooler Ephram fell in love with his little sister’s college-aged baby-sitter. The two eventually sleep together, and in the season’s final episode, she reveals to Dr. Brown that she is pregnant with Ephram’s child. Rather than have Ephram face up to his responsibility — to learn the serious consequences of his decision to become sexually active — Dr. Brown instead gives the woman money and sends her away and makes her promise not to tell Ephram about the baby.
“In another episode, Amy Abbott, the teenaged daughter of Dr. Brown’s competitor Harold Abbott goes to Dr. Brown for some birth control. Dr. Brown gives it to her without ever informing Dr. Abbott of what he did. Such content might be more excusable in a series that was intended for and marketed to adult audiences, but Everwood’s reckless messages about sex without consequences are expressly targeted to impressionable teens.”
