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Skriven 2006-12-27 11:59:16 av John W. Kennedy (12990.babylon5)
   Kommentar till text 9569 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (12986.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: OT - The Sarah Jane Adventures
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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.
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