NFL Likely To Sideline 'Playmakers'
The NFL is likely to force the drama Playmakers off ESPN's primetime schedule next season despite the fact that it has attracted a huge following (in the cable-TV universe) of 2 million viewers, most of them 18-34-year-old males, TV Guide observed in its current issue. Former CBS Sports President Neal Pilson, now a sports marketing consultant, told TV Guide columnist J. Max Robins: "When I was at CBS, I could honestly say to the NFL that I had no control over what some entertainment show did. No such fire wall exists at ESPN." Some of the show's football-player characters have included steroid users, gamblers, homosexuals, and wife beaters. Commented series creator John Eisendrath: "The owners and players seem to forget that it's fiction." A Connecticut sports columnist commented Sunday that "the NFL's stance is as absurd as if the White House issued its disapproval for the storyline of The West Wing."
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(Edited by MissSeptember at 3:15 pm on Dec. 1, 2003)
That's so NA.