The playboy club? Not here.

NBC has been on a whirlwind advertising campaign this summer. They are trying to drum up interest in their upcoming fall shows. One of those shows is called "The playboy club", this show is set in the 60's around Hugh Heffner and his first club. But Heff himself takes a backseat to the crime drama that forms the basis of the story behind the main characters.

This is a mob drama that has the playboy club as it's backdrop. The costumes are far more sedate than the outfits of today, yet KSL refuses to air the show on it's NBC affiliate in Utah.

They claim that because of the title of the show, that ties to pornography would be offensive to viewers and go against their standards of decency.

I would like to remind them that KSL is currently showing a reality based program called "love in the wild" On this show unmarried men and women spend copious amounts of time together in next to nothing. The point of the program is for these virtual strangers to preform tasks together and find "love". i find it odd that this program is somehow right in line with their strict decency standards. KSL claims that since they are embarking on a campaign to end pornography addiction airing this program would be a conflict of interest. Since the program is about the mob in Chicago, I fail to see the connection. If they were striving to end addiction to crime shows I could see their point.

What this comes down to is simple ignorance, rather than seek out more information about the shows content, management at KSL chose to ban the show based on it's title. this is not a new concept for Utah, Larry Miller banned a comedy called "Zach and Meeri make a porno" Because his audience were afraid of the word Porno.

In this day and age, when cable boxes have parental controls, and most Mormon families have DVR: it seems stunningly ridiculous to ban a show from prime time. All this does is lose advertising dollars for KSL and make it harder for people to access entertainment.