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TV Watch is launching a holiday campaign, “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Take Control,” reminding parents to take control of TV viewing and communicate with others in the home about TV rules. TV Watch was launched in May '05 and is the leading national organization to promote parental controls and individual choices as an alternative to increased government regulation of TV content.

TLC's beauty pageant series "Toddlers and Tiaras" will feature its first Pageant Prince as Brock Ritter joins the show.

The series is often criticized for exhibiting bad parenting, but TV Guide says this episode "is garnering the opposite response."

Teen role model and GLEE actress Dianna Agron blogs about her support for TV bosses behind Glee for pushing gay-themed storylines. She adds, "Our show celebrates the GLBT community. We are proud to be a part of something that embraces an often avoided topic. She adds, "I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are black, white, asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay... that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby...

CNN weekend anchor Don Lemon [pic] came out of the closet to NPR, with CNN's approval this weekend. Now he's a role model for gay teens who watch his work on TV because they often look for people like themselves on television.

Colleagues at CNN know about his four-year relationship with a CNN producer. But until now, Lemon has been extremely guarded with the public. He said he was told that anchors do not talk about such things.