How hypocritical!
Tonight is the premiere of Courteney Cox’s new drama Cougar Town, a show about, well, women who are cougars! Trying to bite off the similar audience, the website CougarLife.com approached the big-wigs at ABC to run a commercial during the show. It seemed like a perfect fit for both the network and the website, which is run by self-proclaimed cougar Claudia Openkelder.
Originally, there was some debate over the content of the commercial, but the problem was supposedly resolved. Unfortunately for Claudia and her team, at the 11th hour, ABC said they were cutting the commercial, not because of content, but because they no longer felt it was “appropriate” to promote a site for Cougars.
Anyone else seeing the double-standard here?
Well, the folks at CougarLife.com sure do, especially the founder, Claudia, who released an angry statement to us, saying: “It appears the executives at ABC seem a little too insecure to allow the notion of real world cougars to exist anywhere other than in the realm of fiction.”
Though they now have offers from competing networks to run the ad, the principal of the thing still stands and Claudia considers herself completely blindsided by these turn of events as the execs at ABC were involved in the whole creative process, including approval of the storyboards and script.
Tsk, tsk ABC execs!
Check out the ad they passed on (above).
How do all U cougars feel about this?
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