vila
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RE: Who's on tonight?
My experience was the reverse of Watcher's. I was trying to record Party Girls and it started up as BS2, which I half expected after reading Cdm's post. Before re-setting my timer I let it run for a bit to see if Caty would be giving a Sky-type performance as some had forecast. My heart sank within about the first minute when she produced the dreaded c-word. This is now also being used in caption boxes, so it's evidently here to stay. So much for the end of Freeview censorship. Well it was nice to dream.
I had high hopes on Tuesday night when I heard Dionne's unfettered use of 'Sky-speak' and saw Jada's uninhibited application of cream to Dani's boobs without any attempt to avoid her nipples. I thought the Freeview straitjacket had finally been chucked out of the window in preparation for the new adult section of the EPG. No such luck.
So Freeview's new 9* channel so-called 'adult section' is censored just like before and at last we have confirmation that Freeview censorship wasn't the result, as widely claimed, of the channels being mixed with 'ordinary' channels in the EPG (they never were anyway, as that part of the EPG had only minority-appeal shows which few viewers would watch). Freeview is censored just because it's Freeview. If anything, last night seemed to be a step or two back from the liberalisation we've been seeing since the 4-channel line-up started. A clue as to why this might be was given by Geri when she introduced Freeview Party Girls and talked about new viewers discovering the channel after last night's re-ordering, warning newbies about the nature of the channel's content. They're clearly still paranoid about 'shocking' newcomers. Come on Cellcast, have you looked at the calendar recently? It's the 21st century. Besides, the digital switchover will obviously produce many more new Sky customers, to whom the channels will be equally new, but there's clearly no thought that they might be shocked or offended.
Not much to add to Watcher's account of PG, except to say it was nice to get a respectable dose of Geri for a change, with the added bonus of Stevie crossing over from PL to replace the missing Dionne. I'm not happy about BS2 and PG swapping channels though. The original PG started all this on Freeview and now we've had it cut down to only 4 hours.
I also recorded Partyland (couldn't miss out on Ella and Stevie!), which was notable for the 17 mins or so when Ella's mic was left on (approx 2:13 - 2:30). The Sky boys had reported that these two had a super-hot shower 241 but sadly by the time they opened on FV with a 241 on the bed someone seemed to have doused them with an ice-cold fire hose. PL had the only evidence of FV censorship being lifted as the previous 5:00 cover-up has now gone. So in this case the theory of its being due to proximity to the kids' channels seems to have been correct. Otherwise, like PG, it's the recipe as before with Stevie even producing the double-barrelled c-phrase which hasn't been in evidence much recently. Apart from this the only downside for me was the fact that as I had expected the removal of the cover-up I had splashed out on a 5-hour tape for my VCR. I know these aren't such good quality as the shorter ones but this was diabolical. Couldn't keep it tracking securely on playback to save my life. Normally I'd take it back and change it but I'll have to keep it for the sake of Ella's 17 mins!
Edited for typos.
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2009 18:13 by vila.)
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RE: Who's on tonight?
I recorded both BS1 and BS2 last night. I'd waited up until mdnight to see if what I'd posted about the channel changes was accurate and indeed it was. Although it still said 'Partygirls' on my EPG on channel 95 it was actually BS2. I recorded both via the EPG and both shows were on from midnight to 5.00am.
The same girls swapped between both channels which for once I didn't really mind as I really like all but one of them. The girls were Caty, Flo, Daryl, Louise and Kelly. BS2 was the better show (sorry BB) as it had a section of Caty in the shower. Her last section of the night saw her wearing loose white panties which were quite see-through at the back, another good section .
One rather odd thing on BS2 was a message in the top right corner saying that Flo was talking to 'The Hulk' at one stage Don't know what that was about.
All in all the shows were pretty good, especially Caty Cole's sections.
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