ABC TV station in Birmingham, Alabama, won’t run the “coming out of the closet” episode of “Ellen” later this month. “We do not think it’s appropriate for family viewing,” said Jerry Heilman, president and general manager of WBMA. ABC hasn’t heard whether any of its 222 other affiliates have rejected the show, this according to an ABC spokesperson. The network won’t know about most of them until a few days before it airs. During the hour-long episode April 30, Ellen DeGeneres’s character, Ellen Morgan, reveals she’s a lesbian. Ellen will thus become the first primetime TV show with a gay leading character.