There are a lot of stupidly worded warnings these days, not just on TV, but films too, just look at some of these BBFC howlers
"Contains mild fantasy violence," "Contains infrequent moderate sex references," and the did use this for one of the Harry Potter films, "contains mild violence and fantasy spiders"
And slightly changing the topic, this weeks most ridiculous story about warnings...
A supermarket change in the North West has had to remove it's stocks of bags of peanuts, as the packaging does not contain the warning "may contain nuts" It's not the horsemeat scandal, a bag of nuts isn't going to contain solid gold raisins is it?
That's why the BBC cut the start of Hunted, as about one minute into the first episode there is a sex scene. The BBC One screening showed nothing, whereas Cinemax in the US showed it uncut and you got to see Melissa George topless.
Is because the BBC would have problems showing nudity at 9.01pm
Luckily the UK BD release from EOne uses the US edit
Very true. Sky One aired Strike Back (also a co-production with Cinemax, like Hunted) at 9pm on a Sunday and got into hot water with Ofcom because it featured full frontal female nudity within the first few minutes.
Ofcom objected on two levels, first that it featured full frontal female nudity three minutes after the watershed, and second that the programme followed the ‘family orientated’ The Simpsons.
It was - the second episode - and I must have missed that fishy women you mention as I didn't see any of that. Quite possible as the show didn't really hold my attention.
Is it too much to ask that Ofcom actually defines what it means by gradual transition? At what point does a nipple or more become acceptable or does it depend on the whim of the censor on the day?
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Didn't Mary Whitehouse admit later in life that she had concentrated too much on things like nudity and not enough on violence.
Don't worry, I got the 'Gregory's Girl' quote.
There are a lot of stupidly worded warnings these days, not just on TV, but films too, just look at some of these BBFC howlers
"Contains mild fantasy violence," "Contains infrequent moderate sex references," and the did use this for one of the Harry Potter films, "contains mild violence and fantasy spiders"
And slightly changing the topic, this weeks most ridiculous story about warnings...
A supermarket change in the North West has had to remove it's stocks of bags of peanuts, as the packaging does not contain the warning "may contain nuts" It's not the horsemeat scandal, a bag of nuts isn't going to contain solid gold raisins is it?
Very true. Sky One aired Strike Back (also a co-production with Cinemax, like Hunted) at 9pm on a Sunday and got into hot water with Ofcom because it featured full frontal female nudity within the first few minutes.
Ofcom objected on two levels, first that it featured full frontal female nudity three minutes after the watershed, and second that the programme followed the ‘family orientated’ The Simpsons.
Haha
Mr President