Conservatives? On network TV? It's true.

CONSERVATIVES? ON NETWORK TV? IT'S TRUE.
[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Melana Zyla Vickers, TCSDaily.com]
[Commentary] It's rare, indeed, to find a prime-time character whose politics are similar to the 31 million American women who voted Republican in 2004. Sure, TV has had about one conservative male per decade -- over-the-top Reaganite Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties in the '80s, and over-the-top elitist Denny Crane on Boston Legal these days -- as well as plenty of Donna Reed-type housewives whose views might have been conservative had they been aired along with the laundered sheets. But in the 50 years since The Loretta Young Show, there have been few female characters whose conservatism is a central element of a show, according to TV historian Walter Podrazik. Lately, viewers have begun to see that perhaps times are changing. This season, there's Harriet Hayes (Sarah Paulson), the socially conservative Christian comedienne on NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama about the making of a weekly comedy show. There's also Kitty Walker (Calista Flockhart), the Republican aide on ABC's Brothers & Sisters, a California family drama. Vague hints of the new diversity came in 2005-06, with Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross) owning a gun on ABC's Desperate Housewives, the muscular if apolitical patriotism of Sidney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) on Alias, and patriotic, God-referencing dialogue from the soldiers' wives on CBS' The Unit.
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