Posted on Jun 9, 2015

Could network TV release a program like CPO Sharkey today?

LTC Gavin Heater

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Time Life just released season one of Don Rickles' 1976-1978 NBC Navy SitCom CPO Sharkey. Do you think network TV would attempt to release such a non-PC program these days? Rickles is a WWII Navy Vet and a "salty comedian. Cold a modern comic pull something like this off?

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CH (COL) Geoff Bailey

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Not sure. Even Mel Brooks would likely not fare well these days.

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CSM David Heidke

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Non-PC is almost met with threats of the death penalty, so I would say that CPO Sharkey and SGT Bilko would not make it to TV in the modern age.

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LTC Gavin Heater

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I meant to say Could and not Cold.

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