matt38 Wrote:Just to add my small pennies worth about this discussion. Can you imagine if whatever government of the day decided to ban these channels from broadcasting, would this not amount to censorship of the highest form. What could lead on from this the banning of certain papers, radio shows, it could lead to a whole can of worms being opened. As for these babe shows being banned, don,t we already have some daily tabloids that have girls topless and nude, these have been going alot longer then the television shows without being banned outright. One more point about the BS show, Ofcom and these shows ending, I think we can all remember a certain reality show that was caught up in a bit of a row that went up to the highest level. Ofcom fined the station, the row blew over and the dust settled everything forgotton. The end result the show survived and is about to start its 10th series (boo). If insulting a persons ethnic origins is not enough to get something removed of air, then a few boobs and bums in the early hours must be quite harmless.
The difference being that you don't phone up tabloid newspapers getting the girl to show something or getting them to talk dirty to you.
Ofcom seem to have a problem with sex being sold live on tv but don't really seem to know how to challenge it within their regulations in a way that will stop all the channels once and for all. It took them ages to get rid of Babestar for example, a channel which basically flouted the majority of the rules.
Not surprising perhaps when their objections always come back to the old argument about "protecting the children" which totally overlooks the fact that if any kid is up into the wee small hours of the morning watching the babe channels, the issues run a lot deeper than merely banning the babe channels.
At the end of the day, the channels seemingly make a fair bit of money doing things as they are. New channels are still jumping on the gravy train to get a bit of the action. If existing as they are makes money and keeps Ofcom off their backs at the same time, this is the road they're going to take.
It's been noticeable for quite some time that Babestation has become a lot tamer. Amanda these days is massively diluted from what she was 18 months ago for example. Will be interesting to see how things develop with Elite because they're probably about the same level in terms of raunchiness that Babestation were back then.