From Parents Television Council president Tim Winter: "Fox treated viewers to everything from an ‘eleven-way’ gay orgy to baby Stewie eating a bowl of cereal with horse sperm instead of milk ... if that isn’t enough, the show’s leading character is also shown fanaticizing [sic] about his wife and moaning while a horse licks his bare behind. Clearly, the explicit content was not isolated to one instance in one segment of the show; it permeated the entire program." Said "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane when asked about the PTC last year: "They can all suck my d**k as far as I’m concerned." [THRFeed]

The dates, March 25-27, celebrate his new albums, "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND." Prince will also play Jay Leno's final night on the Tonight Show, May 28. The albums drop March 29 as part of a three-disc set (the third is by new artist Bria Valente) available only through Target. It's the latest in artists performing multi-night stands, much as U2 did last week on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and the White Stripes and the Strokes both did for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." [Billboard]

As if "American Idol" didn't have enough problems. First they have to deal with contestants who sing Meatloaf; now they must do battle with illicit content aimed at folks who misdial while voting for their favorite performers.

While the producers unveiled the surprise twist of 13 contestants rather than the usual 12, folks at home are due for their own surprise twist if they attempt to dial 1-866-IDOLS-13 or 1-866-IDOLS-00. Instead of casting a vote for one of the 13 wannabes, at-home viewers get an earful of dirty talk from "hot and horny girls" provided by an industrious phone sex company that found a niche among fat-fingered reality fans.

One Idol fan provides an audio demonstration here. You have been warned.

We have a call into "American Idol" about the issue; more to come. -- Erin Maxwell 

Good morning. If you missed last night's Barack Obama interview on "60 Minutes," here it is:

The video is brought to us by Pfizer/Viagra, which also sponsors my much-adored repeats of "Mad Men." When did Viagra become the go-to sponsor for video on demand?

SNL creator Lorne Michaels says he's not worried about Sarah Palin's post-election future. From an interview conducted by Jennifer Armstrong, Michaels says:

I watched the way she connected with people, and she's powerful. Her politics aren't my politics. But you can see that she's a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she's had a huge impact. People connect to her.

She's a ratings magnet, too — do you think she can land a development deal if this VP thing doesn't work out?
She could pretty much do better than development. I think she could have her own show, yeah.

Palin's guest slot gave the show its highest ratings in 14 years and Michaels suggests that other candidates will work with the Not Ready For Prime Time Players before the election. However, after the almost-appearances of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, "until they're in the building, I'm not going to talk about it." [Entertainment Weekly]

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HD TV is already retro; it's 3-D TV that has everyone excited. "A few weeks ago I found myself in a converted warehouse in Burbank, where a rig housing two cameras shot my image and transmitted it onto a flat-screen TV on the other side of the room," writes Richard Siklos. "With the benefit of polarized glasses - the cheap clear-plastic ones you now put on when you go to a 3-D movie in a theater - I saw myself in three crisp dimensions, practically leaping out of the television." Most enthusiastic about this development are producers of sports and porn, but ESPN exec Chuck Pagano estimates the first 3-D broadcasts in the U.S. are three years away. [Fortune]

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