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** ''[[Red Eye With Greg Gutfeld]]'' worked out better thanks to it having better time slots, and being more of an imitation of ''Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn'' (which wasn't a left leaning show anyway) than the Daily Show.
** Fox News in general explicitly styles itself as the moral substitute to allegedly left-leaning news sources.
* Arguably, ''all'' TV channels owned by the Venezuelan government under Hugo Chavez's (and his sucessor Nicolás Maduro) rule. All of them try, with various grades of success, to promote an "alternative" view to the "imperialist" (read: American) channels, who means that most shows are devoted to how wonderful the government is and how evil the oppressors are. One of the channels was deliberately built as an "socialist" alternative to commercial channels, and even
* Arguably, the requirements various countries have of a mandated amount of locally produced TV and film.
** This was how the ultra-Canadian stereotypes of [[wikipedia:Bob & Doug MacKenzie|Bob & Doug Mackenzie]] originated. ''[[SCTV]]'' had to fill Canadian TV's extra two minutes per half-hour with "Required Canadian Content", miffed at the fact that a Canadian production, with all-Canadian writers, actors and producers was not enough in and of itself to meet requirements.
* The PAX television network was intended to be a family-friendly alternative to the major broadcast networks, but ended up being mostly infomercials and reruns, along with [[Glurge|Billy Ray Cyrus as]] ''[[Glurge|Doc]]''. It's since changed its name to [[ION]] and its programming now consists ''entirely'' of infomercials and reruns, with the occasional movie during prime time hours (including, oddly enough, ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' during the Christmas season). It later consisted of reruns from CBS primetime shows, including ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', ''[[NCIS]]'', and ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', indicators of some definite [[Network Decay]].
* Like the ''Narnia'' example above, many of the children's shows aired by the American network [[PBS]] (''[[Sesame Street]]'', ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'', ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'', ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'') weren't intended as Moral Substitutes. However, once [[Saturday Morning Cartoon|Saturday mornings]] (and, later, cable networks like [[Nickelodeon]], [[Cartoon Network]] and the [[Disney Channel]]) became increasingly filled with [[Merchandise-Driven|half-hour toy commercials]] and shows that certain parents and [[Media Watchdogs]] considered to [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|glamorize consumerism and materialism]], PBS Kids started to be treated as this by a number of parents who wanted their children watching [[Edutainment Show|more educational fare]].
** Ironically, ''Sesame Street'' itself
* ''Dooley and Pals'' is considered to be a religious alternative to ''[[Barney and Friends]]''. The shows' plots are very similar (kids hang out with a fantasy creature, while singing songs about various topics), despite ''Barney'' being secular in comparison.
* ''[[Bibleman]]'' is a moral substitute for superheros/superhero shows in general. Unlike some alternatives however, it is aware of how silly and campy it can get.
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