Quick: name something you can’t put on your TV network for six-year-olds in the United States. “Guns and excessive violence?” That’s old news. “Racism?” Uh, we hope that’s old news. Here are two categories I propose: “things that are nightmarish” and “things that are really gross.”
Let that sink in. Two categories that dominated children’s TV in the 90s and left a long shadow seem to be fading away.
(Also, if you are a kid, please don’t read this, or my PG-13 blog in general.)
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