"PTV" is the fourteenth episode of season four of the FOX animated series Family Guy. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Dan Povenmire. In the episode, Peter starts his own television channel, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starts to censor television. After the FCC forces Peter to stop broadcasting Peter claims that they can not stop people from being who they are, as a result, the FCC starts cens...
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"PTV" is the fourteenth episode of season four of the FOX animated series Family Guy. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Dan Povenmire. In the episode, Peter starts his own television channel, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starts to censor television. After the FCC forces Peter to stop broadcasting Peter claims that they can not stop people from being who they are, as a result, the FCC starts censoring their lives.
A satire on censorship by the government, many changes had to be made prior to broadcast because of international censors. The writers eventually ended up "horse trading" with FOX, exchanging a body-part reference for a dirty word. With a Nielsen Rating of 4.4, "PTV" was the nineteenth most-watched episode of the week in which it was broadcast. The episode gained mostly positive responses from critics, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) as well...
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