^I bet those exec salaries are laughably small compared to US counterparts.
"The BBC's activities and ambitions are chilling"
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I would like to compare them to ITV and ch4 before i judge.
What I've been able to find
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14/20091007/tpl-bbc-to-ban-swearing-after-watershed-81c5b50.html
I have to say i disagree with this i think it could be hard to have cutting edge drama if they are going to try and make everything family friendly.
Tell them your feelings then, it's a public consultation.
I always mean to join in these consultations, but never do.
Oh, and from what was included in the consultation that story is bullshit. It says that in some cases the strongest swear words (such as cunt, motherfucker and fuck and derivatives of such words) may need to be bleeped even after the watershed... well cunt is bleeped most of the time till after 10:30 anyway, so that's not a change, and I have no problem with them giving warnings of strong language before shows, in fact I'd prefer it. That way sad bastards with nothing better to do only have themselves to blame when they hear it.
Yes it looks like yahoo have got there facts wrong I have just seen another story were they said the BBC are just going to tone it down a bit.
I wonder if James May will still be allowed to say O cock i know on Dave they bleep it out but not on the BBC 2 broadcast
I was having flashbacks of the edited for tv Ghostbusters for a minute there...
'Yes this man is a wally wick' I still can't believe it was edited that way!
I don't have a problem with this though, I have no major beef with swearing, and swear a lot of the time myself, but frankly TV has gone far too overboard lately--Torchwood series 1 was just stupid because every other word was fuck (or felt like it). I'd hate to go back to the days where there was no swearing at all, but a bit more control wouldn't go amiss sometimes.
Anyone else having problems with that consultation link BTW?
'Yes this man is a wally wick' I still can't believe it was edited that way!
I don't have a problem with this though, I have no major beef with swearing, and swear a lot of the time myself, but frankly TV has gone far too overboard lately--Torchwood series 1 was just stupid because every other word was fuck (or felt like it). I'd hate to go back to the days where there was no swearing at all, but a bit more control wouldn't go amiss sometimes.
Anyone else having problems with that consultation link BTW?
delete the S from the https: and it should work.
As for me I have no problem with swearing, not even at the level it was at in Torchwood series 1. In my eyes the problem wasn't the swearing, it was the writing. It came across as juvenile attempts at being adult. If the writing had been better I don't think anyone would have cared that there was that much swearing it it.
As the comment at the time went, from someone on this board: "Sarah Jane Adventures: made by adults for 12 year olds; Torchwood: made for adults, by 12 year olds."
That was me! Actually it was my friend Gordon but I posted it on here...obviously things have changed slightly since Children of Earth
You should watch, I think it was the best bit of telly in years.
Well, as Frankie "The Queen's pussy is so old, it's haunted" Boyle has left Mock the Week, it isn't really an issue anymore
What's not? Swearing on TV? Because Frankie was the only person on the BBC who ever swore?
True Blood is on Channel 4 so I'd guess not.
Besides the guidelines are all about broad generalities rather than specifics. It speaks of editorial justification, tone, who's saying it and to whom, and various other vagaries.
If you want to read a draft here's a link to the PDF file.
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