One of NBC’s possibly-not-sucky new shows next fall is “The Playboy Club,” about the Chicago power players who met and interacted in the 1960s club and the bunnies who titillated them. At the NBC upfronts, CEO Robert Greenblatt assured advertisers that the program was “tame compared to what you’d see on ‘Jersey Shore,” while star Amber Heard called it “not all that racy.”

But Salt Lake City viewers won’t get the opportunity to decide if they like it: KSL-TV, the Mormon-owned NBC affiliate there, won’t air the program.

“The Playboy brand is known internationally,” KSL president and CEO Mark Willes said in a statement. “Everyone is clear what it stands for. We want to be sure everyone is clear what the KSL brand stands for, which is completely inconsistent with the Playboy brand.”

The station is owned by Deseret Media Companies — which is controlled by the Mormon church — whose mission is to “champion values that have been cherished by good people from diverse backgrounds for centuries.” [THR]

I assume that by “centuries” the Mormon church means “since 1978,” which is when they allowed black people to become priests in the Church of Latter-Day Saints. So I guess that’s right. The end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century is technically “centuries.” So good work, KSL. Everyone knows that the best way to champion values is with censorship.

I hope Matt won’t mind if I do something a little different with my four posts today. I saw the latest episode (S05E09) of “Weeds” last night and it struck me just so. I wrote a little piece about it. Want to hear it? Here it goes:

You could say I was into the first season of weeds. I mean besides having a post-religious crush on Mary Louise-Parker from her super hot sexually frustrated Mormon wife in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America”, this was going to be a show about weed! I smoked weed! Actually in the middle of a graduate program at NYU I had rediscovered weed in a big way. Weed and I were in the middle of a beautiful love affair and now it had Mary Louise-Parker’s face!?! And the first season was magical. The chemistry between Mary Louise-Parker’s Nancy and Romany Malco’s Conrad was enough to float an entire show. Not to mention you had Justin Kirk and Kevin Nealon being hilarious all over the place. It was clever, unpredictable and did something that few shows really do, it let its characters make decisions and suffer the consequences. Things weren’t necessarily going to be OK. In fact they were most likely going to turn out pretty bad. But in this case bad was good and “Weeds” was great.

Check back in an hour for part 2!