Scottishbloke
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RE: Mainstream TV nudity vs babeshow nudity
Lets put this into context. The Benny Hill show was crap hence the reason it got cancelled, it had nothing to do with political correctness. It's ratings slumped. This is the official reason as for its cancellation when it was announced in March 1988.
"...the audiences were going down, the programme was costing a vast amount of money, and he (Hill) was looking a little tired."
It was really only later when political correction might have proven a factor in the refusal for any of the archive channels to show Benny Hill on repeats.
Moving on at the start of this century we seemed to have a vast amount of late night entertainment to choose from, Men and Motors (now defunct) never tried to hide or make any secret of the type of audiences they were honing in and neither were Bravo (now defunct)
Times have changed and moved on, have a look through the SKY EPG on any given night and you'll rarely find anything that comes close to sexy or erotic outside of the 900 section which might explain why they have become such a tired format.
As for Love Thy Neighbour well that was just blatantly racist which came to an abrupt halt at the start of 1976 after a 4 year run. You most definitely will never see that series being repeated seeing as it's breaches just about every single current rule in the broadcasting regulations.
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M-L-L
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RE: Mainstream TV nudity vs babeshow nudity
The UK criminal justice system has been getting shafted up the arse by the Government for years - why should the individual judges be any different ?
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eccles
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RE: Mainstream TV nudity vs babeshow nudity
Not about nudity, but this does illustrate dual standards.
A babeshow makes a mistake, admits it, puts tighter controls in place, no members of the public complain, just a competitor, but Ofcom finds against them, fines them anyway, and threatens closure if repeated.
Meanwhile a show watched by millions of all ages, including impressionable youths, broadcasts what is held to be a grossly offensive racial slur that could encourage race hate on a public service broadcaster. Its a live show but there is no reason not to have a 5 minute safety delay. Likely outcome? Either find against the broadcaster and no further action, or accept promises to do better and mark the case "Resolved".
Each episode of BB attracts more complaints than babeshows in the entire past 10 years.
Quote:HUNDREDS of people have complained about the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother less than a week after it began, with former Coronation Street star Ken Morley the focus of viewers' anger.
Communications watchdog Ofcom said 233 people complained about the actor, who was given a formal warning by show bosses for using "unacceptable language" after he called US singer Alexander O'Neal a "negro".
Daily Record
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Quote:Celebrity Big Brother ...Last year's series was the second most complained-about show of the year with 1,874 people contacting the watchdog about it.
The only programme with a worse record was the main Big Brother series which received 3,784 complaints, many of them centred on the behaviour of its eventual winner, Helen Wood, who was accused of bullying other contestants.
Daily Telegraph
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(This post was last modified: 12-01-2015 17:49 by eccles.)
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robby
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RE: Mainstream TV nudity vs babeshow nudity
If a video of mine doesn`t play, please change filename by adding .mp4 to it
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