<div id="subtitle">Racy promos for 'Gossip Girl' spur group to call for CW stations to pre-empt upcoming episode</div><div><p>On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affiliates of the CW network to pre-empt the show.</p><p>Airing the teen tryst, which is being teased in an ad as a "3SOME," is "reckless and irresponsible," said PTC president Tim Winter in a statement Wednesday. The threesome involves three main characters in the show but they are not identified in the promos.</p><p>The PTC has urged CW affiliate stations not to air the episode, scheduled for Nov. 9.</p><p>In a letter to the affiliates, Winter asked: "Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?"</p><p>This is not the first time the PTC has complained about the sexy prep-school soap, which Winter said is "expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers."</p><p>In July 2008, the organization spoke out against a racy marketing campaign for its new season. Ads showed intimate moments between the show's characters (on a couch, in the sack or apparently skinny-dipping), accompanied by headlines like "A Nasty Piece of Work" and "Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate."</p><p>"CW has been defending graphic content on 'Gossip Girl' by asserting that they don't target teenagers," Winters said Wednesday. "Such a claim doesn't even pass the 'laugh test.'"</p><p>CW spokesman Paul McGuire said the target audience for "Gossip Girl" is 18- to 34-year-old women, with a median viewer age of 27 years old. The network had no comment on PTC's complaint, he said.</p><p>The Parents Television Council describes itself as a nonpartisan education group advocating responsible entertainment.</p><p>___</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>http://www.cwtv.com</p><p>http://www.parentstv.org</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=62711713&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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