From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Browdessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

I mean you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

Samuel Goldwyn said, the harder I work, the luckier I get.

This week on the business, writer-director Richard Shepard got lucky at the Sundance Film Festival, after 20 years of hard work.

We'll catch up with him two years, two TV pilots, and a feature film later.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

It's the business from NPR.

Thank you. It's The Business from NPR. Yes, as the networks roll out their new fall shows, the Parents' Television Council released its new report.

That's the same old story.

They found that A, things are going to hell in a handbasket, and B, Fox's Uber Violent 24 is largely to blame.

The Watchdog Group's chief complaint is the death of TV's family hour,

which, for those of us who remember the wonderful world of Disney, used to be from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday

through Saturday and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday. Sex and violence during the early

primetime slot have increased significantly during the last six years, the PTC found,

although the use of foul language has decreased. Now be damned. Broadcasters responded by saying

that the family hour is kind of an outdated notion. With kitty cable channels, DVDs, and TiVo,

families don't need a family hour anymore.

Another group called TV Watch, which is actually a coalition funded by broadcasters and not a watchdog group at all, called for greater parental involvement and blocking technologies like

the VCHIP, not more regulation. Giving credence to the PTTC's concern about the demise of the family hour

is Disney's plan to kick off a new incarnation of the wonderful world of Disney

with herpes the love bug.

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