Nickelodeon Teen Pregnancy Special Following Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnancy Scandel
Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and love following the news that sixteen-year-old Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.
For the special, Nickelodeon said it’s talking with veteran newswoman Linda Ellerbee, the veteran newswoman who has stepped in frequently in the past with shows on talking to children about difficult issues in the news. She’s done shows about same-sex parents, AIDS, the Columbine shooting and President Clinton’s impeachment scandal.
“I think it’s important that something be done,” Ellerbee told The Associated Press on Thursday. “But I think it’s important that it be done in a measured way, and not just to feed the beast of news stories.”
“This is a great opportunity for parents at this moment to talk to their kids about this — more important, to listen to their kids about this,” Ellerbee said.
A Nickelodeon spokesman, Dan Martinsen, confirmed the discussions but said no decision had been made.
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On January 3rd 2008, Will wrote:
Special on Teen Pregnancy? Nickelodeon’s gone mad…
Until the sponsors started balking about this you guys were ready to write in the High School Maternity Uniforms. Now the show is canceled and should have been without a second thought. Nickelodeon was a network for kids, right?
I am a parent with 5 children. Nickelodeon is blocked on our sets. Wow, that little chip in the T.V. really works!
Thank goodness for Cable TV and it’s gazillion channels, not to mention season 1 to 4 of Fraggle Rock and all the other “kids” stuff on DVD these days. We don’t have to watch anything on Nickelodeon at all and still we can round out the formative T.V. years for our children. We are looking in to the sponsors of the show to send our thanks to and promise to use their products advertised elsewhere.
“Hey Dad, what’s Nickelodeon?” “Well kids, that was a machine they put a nickle in to to watch a short video at the turn of the last Century”. No other explaination is necessary nor will be asked for, I am sure of that. Nobody in our home will be digging further for more.