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Las Vegas: NBC in Trouble Over Series Finale — Did This Cause the Show’s Cancellation?

by Trevor Kimball, February 25, 2008

Las VegasThough Las Vegas is on its way out, that’s not stopping a conservative watchdog group from taking some final shots at the NBC series.

It seems that the Parents Television Council (PTC) has a problem with the last two episodes of Las Vegas. They’ve filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over an image that was shown on the February 15th installments of the five-year-old drama.

In the opening moments of the first of two episodes, three young women gather together in the center of the Montecito casino floor and disrobe. They then begin to run around the casino, creating a distraction for some bad guys to start a robbery. As you might expect, this was filmed without showing any objectionable nudity.

What the PTC has a problem with is what they claim they can see on small casino security monitors. In a recent press release, they say that the women’s “buttocks are visible, and only shadows obscure their breasts and groins.”

In a statement, PTC President Tim Winter said, “This crossed the line of common sense decency. NBC seems eager to test the FCC’s resolve to fine stations for violating broadcast decency laws. I remind NBC that the broadcast airwaves are public property. The TV networks do not own them. The TV stations do not own them. The industry must be held accountable for the content they air and the FCC must act in the public interest by slapping NBC with a significant indecency fine.”

These fines are serious business. A few weeks ago, the FCC hit 52 ABC affiliate stations with a fine of $1.4 million because of a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue. As you might expect, NBC has had no comment on the complaint as yet.

Though the series won’t be back on NBC next season, the network will still have to pay the fine if the FCC agrees with the PTC. Could this complaint from the conservative watchdog group have had a hand in getting Las Vegas cancelled? Even if the peacock network had already decided the drama’s fate, this issue over the series finale likely ensures the network won’t be changing their mind. Stay tuned! TV Series Finale home page


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To this day I still watch the series and I am to this day why don’t you see more episodes. I believe the show was like a fine wine getting better with age been off the air for over a decade and I’m still waiting for more somebody should get off the pot and start writing new episodes. This show is worth at least a couple more seasons.

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June 14, 2019 8:02 pm
Hotboy
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Hotboy

I love the show please put the show black on tv.

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January 1, 2019 11:31 am
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Soooo stupid!!! I wish it would come back on!!!

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February 28, 2015 10:50 pm
Donna Parow
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Donna Parow

ARE YOU KIDDING? ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF BRIEF NUDITY. I SAW THE EPISODE AND DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING. PEOPLE ARE STUPID REALLY AND SHOULD JUST WATCH ANOTHER CHANNEL IF IT BOTHERS YOU BUT BE WARNED MORE NUDITY IN THE REAL WORLD EVERYDAY SO ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR BLINDERS OR CENSOR OUR STREETS?

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February 21, 2012 11:09 am
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I was so disappointed that Las Vegas was canceled without at least being allowed to finish the series. Not fair to all the LOYAL VIEWERS. I’m still in shock that certain watch dogs had that much pull to get the show canceled! What a shame for the great actors and all their loyal viewers who LOVED THE SHOW. Unfair, Unfair, Unfair!

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June 30, 2011 8:33 pm
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LMM

Of all the stupid excuses. These “problem causers” need to go home sit down and shut up. They DO NOT speak for all of us. Who are they to decide for a Country that supports so many freedoms? These people grate on my every nerve. Assuming because they live in their world of self imposed standards, that we do as well. I’m sure most of us here have kids, and we make educated decisions for them. WE CHOOSE. We don’t appreciate someone CHOOSING FOR US. Between these folks and the American Family folks, they all make me sick.

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March 31, 2011 10:25 am
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I just have to say how Stupid some networks can be to leave it hang the way they did, they could have at least ended it properly.

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February 1, 2011 4:24 pm
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dave

i cant believe the series finale said to be continued and it never was cause was cancelled nbc is horrible

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January 19, 2011 11:47 pm
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Michelle

OMG! I can’t believe this was canceled over something soooooo STUPID!!

This show was awesome, it had great writers, and actors. I’ve been dying to see what happens after Copper shows up at the wedding, why in the hell would you make that episode the last one??????

AND Why in the hell who the FCC cancel a great show instead of just maybe putting future seasons straight to DVD, the show has enough fans that there would be a lot of money made.

I mean god, don’t kill the project reinvent how you supply it to your audience.

Idiots.

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January 14, 2011 12:14 pm
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I too am a faithful daily viewer of Las Vegas. I have seen the entire series – first to last – at least 7 (or more) times. I am at home daily with very limited mobility and watching TV is one of the only things that makes me feel like I’m still apart if the living world. Where I live, the show runs from 9:00 to 11:00 am daily. This show is what gets me UP AND MOVING every week day. Its fun, lively with drama, sex, humor, friendship, and some true life situations and alot of “gee, I wish… Read more »

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I say **** the Ptc and the FCC everyone of us have pravite areas that we see on a daily bases and this was the prefect show it was great and at the last season it said to be countied then these fuckers cancl the show I hate the USA if they have such a problem with nudity stop playboy or free easy porn sites on the Internet i mean **** u guys need to stop messing with little things and deal with the big stuff because u stopped this show and pissed alot of poeple off big fuckers hope… Read more »

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October 21, 2010 5:34 pm
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So if the PTC was so hot to get Las Vegas cancelled a couple of years ago, where are they now when this program is continually being re-aired from 12:00-2:00 p.m. PST on Los Angeles television. It’s just stupid reasoning. Las Vegas was being aired at 10 p.m. on, I believe, Fridays and it was a very entertaining program with good writing (not a reality show like the Real housewives of NJ, OC, NY, DC etc.). What’s the big deal. There is much more sexual insinuation all the time on the daytime Soap Operas plus all of the cr_p that… Read more »

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Are you kidding me?!! This is 2010, I can’t believe that in 2008 “Las Vegas” was cancelled because of a little fuzzy nudity. There are people in this country that must still live in the dark ages,and believe that nudity is too dirty and inappropriate for network television in the United States. The FCC needs to ease up on censorship and stop letting radical conserative groups depict what should be seen on network TV. Everybody is so worried that our kids will be traumatized from seeing a naked person or persons, when in Europe they see it everyday on television,… Read more »

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