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Skriven 2006-12-27 14:35:28 av Wesley Struebing (12994.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: OT - The Sarah Jane Adventures
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On 27 Dec 2006 11:59:16 -0800, "John W. Kennedy"
<John.W.Kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

>Richard Fallstrom wrote:
>> In article <0001HW.C1B7F94A01C2862DF0182648@news.verizon.net>, Amy
>> Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>>
>> > >> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:59:12 -0500, Richard Fallstrom wrote
>> > (in article <261220062359128940%rick.fallstrom@donobi.net>):
>> >
>> > > In article <1167168879.778880.131830@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> > > John W. Kennedy <John.W.Kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Chris Slade wrote:
>> > >>> rob.ocelot@gmail.com wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>>> Torchwood definitely would not fly on Sci-fi, even though they are
>> > >>>> technically exempt from FCC broadcast rules being a 'premium' cable
>> > >>>> channel.  It's content is just too harsh for what american public is
>> > >>>> used to hearing and seeing on non-pay television.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> This surprises me. I thought that the British public were far more
>> > >>> cosseted
>> > >>> than the American in terms of TV.
>> > >>
>> > >> It depends on the subject matter. For example, I can think of only
>> > >> three times in fifty years that I've seen female nipples exposed on US
>> > >> broadcast television: some dancers seen briefly in the first episode of
>> > >> "I, Claudius", the "dull life of a city stockbroker" Python sketch, and
>> > >> a young woman in a medical drama that was very conscientiously making
>> > >> the point, "Being operated on for breast cancer doesn't necessarily
>> > >> make you a hideous freak, especially if it's caught early."
>> > >>
>> > >> The relatively ironclad "watershed hour" in the UK makes a difference.
>> > >> That's harder to pull off in the US, because of our four timezones.
>> > >>
>> > >> BBC America pixelated the hell out of the nudity in "The Buddha of
>> > >> Suburbia", and suppresses all the f-words out of the cop shows, and
>> > >> they, like Sci-Fi, are on basic cable.
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> John W. Kennedy
>> > >> "The blind rulers of Logres
>> > >> Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
>> > >> -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Depends on your cable provider. Mine has it as an extra where you have
>> > > to rent the "digital cable" box (Comcast).<<
>> >
>> > There are features on the box that you can use to _block_ certain channels
>> > (say, if you have young children in the house and don't want them watching
>> > 'Skinimax' or 'Ho-time'), but the pixellation and bleeping of certain
words
>> > is _not_ a function of the digital cable box; it's censorship coming
straight
>> > from the source (the network/channel itself).
>> >
>> > Amy
>>
>> I know there are. In this particular case, I was referring to the fact
>> one had to rent the box in order to get certain channels.
>
>True, but that's a question of channel crowding. BBCAM is not in any
>sense a "Premium Cable" channel, which are essentially limited to the
>HBO family, the Showtime family, the STARZ family, and porn.
>
PBS stations/programming seem to be able to "get away with" somewhat
more relaxed standards. " I Clavdivs" (did anyone else always read it
that way?) ran on PBS (thought they did cut some of the more, err,
blatant sex-and-titties, in my recollection - I only knew that when I
bought the set), and Jacob Bronowski's, "Ascent of Man" [which I
highly recommend to anyone] had some nudity when he was explaining
perspective and the big deal its "discovery" was)

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