TV’s The Newlywed Game is bowing to the progressivist zeitgeist and including a homosexual couple among its contestants for an episode expected to air in October.

The show, which the great majority of Americans surely believed to be long gone and has aired for the past few years on the obscure, low-rated Game Show Network (GSN), will present an episode featuring former Star Trek actor George Takei and his mate, Brad Altman, who married last year during the brief period when such marriages were declared legal by a California court before the state’s citizens ended the practice by voting it down in a referendum.

It seems possible that the episode will bring a brief increase in the show’s ratings as curiosity seekers take a look, which is surely what its producers and GSN hope.

But given the huge amount of airtime already given to Takei and his sex life, there may not be much curiosity left to exploit.

–S. T. Karnick