How does British TV work?

[Hermiod]

There were complaints about the cuts in an item on Channel 4's Right to Reply series, and the woman who was in charge of programme acquisitions came on to basically say "I've heard what you said, but my judgement's better than yours, because I'm the one who's in this job."
On the following Monday, I thought the woman who was sitting opposite me, reading the latest Ofcom report and looking increasingly miserable, looked familiar - and sure enoughshe got off at the right station for the Channel 4 building. Then when I got to the office and opened the post, there was the Ofcom report, including its decision that even the edited versions of Angel were unsuitable for transmission in that slot.
I suspect that she might not have stayed in that job for very long after that...

I complained to Ofcom about the editing. Their written reply stated that there was nothing they could do as long as what Channel 4 did broadcast was suitable for the timeslot.

However, the letter did go on to say that they had received a considerable number of complaints on the same issue and would be informally contacting Channel 4 about the matter.

One of them does this at the moment. The Daily News Show is put on at 8.30 on one of the freeview channels, which means all the swearing is beeped out. How daft is that?

Is it not beeped on Comedy Central as well ?

 

[Deckerd]

I don't know what Comedy Central is.

 

[Hermiod]

^Comedy Central is the cable channel that airs The Daily Show in the US.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

yeah, I believe it is bleeped on Comedy Central. If you see the clips online they're still bleeped.

 

[wamdue]

I fail to see the point of John being allowed to swear if it has to be beeped on Comdey Central, and it airs at like 11pm over in the US.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I fail to see the point of John being allowed to swear if it has to be beeped on Comdey Central, and it airs at like 11pm over in the US.

So's South Park, and they bleep most of their swearing too.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Side note: TV detector vans don't actually work, do they? I always thought they were just out there to scare people. Don't they actually work from a database of who's paid the license fee and who hasn't? The vans don't actually have a practical function other than to look imposing with all those bits sticking out and all that?

"The man from the cat detector van."
"Looney detector van, you mean."
"It's people like you what cause unrest!"

 

[wamdue]

ive never seen a van TBH

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't think they've been used in a decade or two.

Apparently I'm wrong, I did a search, and apparently "Now they could be any van on the street, and you wouldn't know." ... scary.

 

[captcalhoun]

the last time i saw one i was still in primary school. 21 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!1111

yeah, with the digital tech they have these days, it'd be a piece of piss to make a covert detector-van