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Heroes, Daisies declared family friendly

By Tim Surette - TV.com
November 29, 2007 at 12:07:00 PM | more stories by this author

Family Television Awards honors Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies, Heroes, Zac Efron, Kyle Chandler.

It's great to gather the family together to sit around and watch some television, but it's not exactly appropriate to let little Timmy the 10-year-old watch some bare ass on Nip/Tuck or a mobster hacked to pieces on The Sopranos.

<em>High School Musical 2</em> won in the very crowded television movie musical category.

High School Musical 2 won in the very crowded television movie musical category.

There is some television out there that is good to go for the whole clan, though, and The Family Friendly Programming Forum (FFPF) held an awards show last night in Los Angeles celebrating the best of the bunch.

(The event will air on December 27 on the CW, so if you want to watch the event without knowing who won what, stop reading right here...)

The 9th Annual Family Television Awards were handed out in 11 categories, honoring programs and actors that the FFPF (an initiative of the Association of National Advertisers) deems family friendly.

The top awards went to Ugly Betty and Heroes, which took home the awards in the best comedy and drama categories, respectively. Ugly's Betty, played by America Ferrera, won best actress, and High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron and Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler each took home awards for best actors.

Ned the Pie-maker showed he has the family-friendly touch, as Pushing Daisies won for best new series, and Kyle XY was awarded the prize for cable series. Chuck's Zachary Levi was recognized as television's Favorite Newcomer, and Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? beat out other nonscripted fare for best reality show. The final two awards went to High School Musical 2 for best movie musical (honestly, what did it compete with?) and Planet Earth for best miniseries or special.

The Amazing Race's Phil Keoghan hosted the event, which featured appearances by Kristen Chenowith, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, and more. The 9th Annual Family Television Awards will be televised on the CW on December 27 at 9 p.m.

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41 Comments

 
stupidflounders
Usually these awards are a handy way to figure what shows NOT to watch -- but I actually like a lot of these. Pushing Daisies is one of my new favorites.
Posted 01/25/2008 4:42pm
kitten_girl_979
Who cares if Heroes is family friendly? But my little sister loves the show.
Posted 12/12/2007 11:42pm
sandrilene23
Heroes is family friendly?? That's a shock. It can be incredibly violent, and not just occasionally (basically anything where Claire would've died or Sylar kills someone). I can almost see calling "Pushing Daisies" family-friendly, because it deals with death in a humorous way and the (minimal) gore is done for laughs. PD always reminds me of something done by Tim Burton, who has done several family/kids' movies. There are a lot of double entendres in PD, but they come so fast that younger kids might not even notice them.
Posted 12/11/2007 8:06am
JohnnyDrama8
Heroes is not "Family Friendly"
Here are my top 5 Family Friendly moments on Heroes.
1. Isaac Mendez is a Heroin Addict he gets high on the show like 10 times.
2. Hiro is forced to inhale Opium Vapors.
3. D.L. pulls out Linderman's brain from the back of his skull.
4. A jock tries to rape Claire Bennet and is then accidentally killed.
5. Any scene with Sylar especially in 5 years in the future when he Kills Claire and blood is running down her face and drips into her mouth.

If I have forgeten any please remind me. I almost forget when Eden blows her of brains out with a gun. If we think Heroes is family friendly here is some other shows that are Dexter, CSI, Life and Weeds. They all show characters bonding some in family situations.
Posted 12/06/2007 9:13pm
agent_0042
Phil Keoghan hosted! So cool. I think I wanna see this...
Posted 12/03/2007 9:33am
bigfan080
Yes. Heros is family friendly show. I love it. Bessy is cute. She is my favorite actress. I saw her profile on millionaire dating site WealthyRomance.com last week. Is she single now??
Posted 12/03/2007 5:50am
SoylentYellow
Though I cant stand High School Musical (hate musicals in general) at least I can understand why thats called family friendly. But Heroes? Im still shaking my head over that one. While its a good show, its certainly not something Id want my preteens watching with or without me in the room.
Posted 12/03/2007 5:39am
insomniac360
Lol, Sylar's family-friendly.
Posted 12/02/2007 7:11pm
DarthUltima
Heroes family friendly? I think not!
Posted 12/02/2007 1:30pm
thaobserva6160
Shardyk said:

"Featuring a guest appearance by a girl who has nude pics on the internet. Nice. haha"

Yeah you got a problem with that?
Posted 12/02/2007 10:58am
avril182
family friendly or not, im just happy heroes won sumtin.
Posted 12/02/2007 8:53am
KatiKatNik
Heroes family friendly? There's a man eating other people's brains there, for pete's sake! How is that family friendly? Because it has no nudity? Oh, sure. Violence and gore is OK for kids, sexuality of any kind isn't. Sheesh, the world is doomed.
Posted 12/02/2007 8:09am
midlandsmorg
Heroes is NOT a family friendly show, I certainly wouldn't want my young child seeing footage of senseless murders (Silus, Jessica) and grotesque injuries (Clare, Peter).
Posted 12/02/2007 7:33am
sfviewer
heroes, excellent, the whole family can definitely watch this.
Posted 12/02/2007 6:12am
Minor_Annoyance
I thought I remember last year there being complaints about Heroes being too violent for it's 8:00 time slot. Syler hasn't opened any skulls this year but that was hardly the only violence seen. Maybe the fact that Claire isn't a pot smoking tramp is what won then the award.
Posted 12/02/2007 12:15am
JPPT1974
House would be anything but family friendly as it has some sexual tones in it.
Posted 12/01/2007 8:31pm
dewydecimal
Heroes, Ugly Betty, and Pushing Daisies are family friendly? Just click on the FFPF link and read the very first statement to understand why this is. Since when are the advertisers in any position to tell us what's "family friendly"? Seriously.
Posted 12/01/2007 7:01pm
nichgt
I can understand High School as being family-friendly but Pushing Daisies? Like the suttle abstinence references and such. I love the show but it's really not for kids I mean it has some pretty grusome death sequences lol
Posted 12/01/2007 5:29pm
malawi69
Just as silly as when GLAAD said there weren't enough gay characters on tv shows.
Posted 12/01/2007 9:10am
v3rrrtig0
pushing daisies is awesome , but i think that Heroes isn't really appropriate for young people ...
Posted 12/01/2007 8:56am
Naz23
lol heroes in my opinion isnt family friendly to people younger than 12 its got soo much blood and violence. Gosh the scene with claire when her ribs were showing taht was shocking
Posted 12/01/2007 7:12am
angrodpallanen
I'd rather have Heroes not appropriate for kids, it would be way cooler.
Posted 12/01/2007 4:45am
kingraise
Interesting,isn't it?
Posted 12/01/2007 3:58am
mammalazz
way to go pushing daises
Posted 11/30/2007 7:54pm
maaarin
Zach Levi, Kyle Chandler, Pushing Daisies? Awesome
Posted 11/30/2007 2:52pm
firefly317
Heroes family friendly? My brothers in sixth and seventh grade watch it, but they're more mature than a lot of kids their age. I mean there isn't really any sex (except at the beginning of season 1), but there's so much violence and some blood. And the characters betray and lie and fight and what not. It's a notch up from the Spiderman movies which are pretty family friendly. Ugly Betty isn't what I'd called "family friendly" My 8 year old sister was told to leave the room while the rest of my family was watching, The sixth grade brother shortly followed. There's sex on there pretty frequently.
Posted 11/30/2007 12:52pm
linkinfnpark19
good to see that pushing daisies is getting the recognition it deserves!
Posted 11/30/2007 11:29am
orangemann327
Yeah, Kyle!!
Posted 11/30/2007 10:33am
SoylentYellow
Heroes is family friendly? With all the blood and gore - particularly last season when Sylar was using his knife finger to slice open skulls eating someones brain every episode. Not to mention someone being torn in half! Is a great show, but Id hardly call it family friendly.

Daisies, though dealing with death, does so in a comical way. So at least I can understand that one. But what about JERICHO? They had to leave that off the list? Its like a post nuclear terrorism version of the Waltons. I just wish CBS would get off their butts and announce when Season 2 will start airing. The new episodes were finished months ago. NUTS !!!
Posted 11/30/2007 8:18am
danawhitaker
Um...I love Heroes (and I've seen some of Ugly Betty and Pushing Daisies). I don't consider any of these family shows. I'm sure my daughter will end up watching Heroes when she's older (she's only two now) but...huh. Who's giving out these awards? Then again, I can't think of any of the primetime shows I watch that actually *would* normally get an acclamation for being family friendly, considering they consist of mostly crime shows and "evening" soaps like Grey's with some nice science fiction thrown in too.
Posted 11/29/2007 11:02pm
Pinkmyst
Good to see there is still family friendly TV on
Posted 11/29/2007 9:37pm
bigpuppax
I've got no problem with Pushing Daisies or Ugly Betty (actually love the first, enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor of the second from time-to-time), but neither one is particularly family friendly.

Did the judges forget Ugly Betty's murder, adultery, deception & backstabbing, bitter family infighting, alcoholism, drug addiction, philandering, betrayal, and on and on? Maybe they were too enchanted by the primary storyline to pay attention to the episode plots on Pushing Daisies. You know, the ones filled with horrible murders and extremely disturbing murderers.

I honestly can't fathom what criteria these judges use.
Posted 11/29/2007 9:30pm
childsmj
Family friendly? Serial Killers and blood and gunshots! Oh my!
Posted 11/29/2007 9:23pm
bermyblue
an "alive corpse"? who wrote that!? I'm talkin to you viewdrix.
Posted 11/29/2007 8:37pm
Shardyk
Featuring a guest appearance by a girl who has nude pics on the internet. Nice. haha
Posted 11/29/2007 7:47pm
viewdrix
Really? The show with the girl who gets super injured and bloody only to heal herself, and the show that started with an alive corpse with half of his face missing from a dog bite, were deemed family friendly?
Posted 11/29/2007 5:29pm
AlkaStealther
wow, these are REALLY interesting news...
Posted 11/29/2007 4:29pm
samosfromhalo
I guess I could kinda understand Heroes winning best Family show this year but do they know last year, they were taking off people's skulls on Heroes? And I doubt some of the themes in Chuck and Pushing Daisies are family appropriate. Kyle XY is an awesome show though.
Posted 11/29/2007 3:23pm
seanlyger
Wow. It's all I can do to not give a damn.
Posted 11/29/2007 3:19pm
JusticeLeaguer
That's cool, every great show got an award!
Posted 11/29/2007 12:50pm
dude6363
First! Wow, that sounds like the worst award show ever. Bor-ing!
Posted 11/29/2007 12:44pm

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