The Artful Jurist

The show hasn't even aired yet, and already a new CBS program is drawing fire.  And it's all about the title.

The show is euphemistically referred to as (Bleep) My Dad Says.  If you've any imagination at all, you can probably fill in the "bleep" for yourself.  The program is based on a popular Twitter feed, and it stars William Shatner, who apparently delights in getting more outrageous each year.  (Who'd have believed he would have been at his most average and normal when he was playing Captain Kirk?)

Anyway, the "bleep" isn't bleeped on Twitter, which means the unadulterated, unbleeped word will be hidden from only the most technologically challenged kids (and is there any such thing as a technologically challenged kid today?).  The very notion that TV is skating so close to one of those words that doesn't get First Amendment protections is causing a parents group to threaten to seek the revocation of the broadcast license of any CBS affiliate that airs the show.

Despite the flap, reports are that the show isn't having any problem attracting advertisers.