Alabama Public Television says they will not air PBS' recent 'Arthur' episode that features a same-sex marriage
"It would be a violation of trust to broadcast the episode," the director of programming at Alabama Public Television said.Alabama Public Television chose not to air PBS' recent"Arthur" episode that featured a same-sex marriage.Arthur's third-grade teacher, Mr. Ratburn, marries Patrick, a chocolatier, at a wedding attended by his students, Arthur, Francine, Buster and Muffy. It aired May 13.
Mike McKenzie, director of programming at APT, told NBC News on Monday that PBS sent a message to stations in mid-April alerting them"to possible viewer concerns about the content of the program." After he and others at APT viewed the episode, they decided not to broadcast it and showed a re-run instead.“Parents have trusted Alabama Public Television for more than 50 years to provide children’s programs that entertain, educate and inspire,” McKenzie said in a statement.
McKenzie also said if they aired it, APT would take away the choice of parents who felt it was inappropriate for their children. "The vast majority of parents will not have heard about the content, whether they agree with it or not," he said."Because of this, we felt it would be a violation of trust to broadcast the episode."In 2005, APT pulled an episode of"Arthur" in which the character Buster visited a girl who had two mothers,“'Our feeling is that we basically have a trust with parents about our programming," then-executive director Allan Pizzato said at the time.
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