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That's TV is broadcasting Monty Python's Flying Circus "uncut", but wokery still has them superimposing a trigger-warning banner over the first few seconds:

THIS PROGRAMME REFLECTS THE STANDARDS, LANGUAGE AND ATTITUDES OF ITS TIME. SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THIS CONTENT OFFENSIVE.
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Bonus marks for spelling "programme" correctly. Points deducted for not including an Oxford comma. Not sure what I think about giving permission for viewers to be offended.

I just wish they had added "Hard luck – real life isn't always the way you might like it, and there's always the OFF button.".
 
Black Hole said:
That's TV is broadcasting Monty Python's Flying Circus "uncut",
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Rumour has it that the remaining Pythons insisted on this. I wish all programme rights holders would do the same. I can just imagine someone trying to show The New Statesman. B’Stard (as a name and in full) would be “dipped” - making a nonsense of some of the jokes.

The place for the banner (if you really must do this) is in the space before the programme - not during it. Forces TV has a habit of squashing from bottom upwards the picture to insert such warnings. Like the forces don’t use fruity language.

Black Hole said:
Not sure what I think about giving permission for viewers to be offended.
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Can I have a caption warning me that the following caption is offensive?
 
Black Hole said:
That's TV is broadcasting Monty Python's Flying Circus "uncut", but wokery still has them superimposing a trigger-warning banner over the first few seconds:



Bonus marks for spelling "programme" correctly. Points deducted for not including an Oxford comma. Not sure what I think about giving permission for viewers to be offended.

I just wish they had added "Hard luck – real life isn't always the way you might like it, and there's always the OFF button.".
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Surely all current programmes should also be flagged with a warning that they contain language and attitudes of their time?
 
Perhaps you all miss the point.
Any culture is acceptable except british culture - which is offensive by default and must never be preserved.

I'd forgotten about Bstard - I'd love to see that again.
 
:rolling: The chanting from the audience at the live Masters Darts is a bit fruity. There was a message on-screen saying something like "we apologise for the offensive language".
 
OMG! Even Porridge has been cut now!! U&Yesterday, episode 'Ways and Means', Fletch boots McLaren into the cell... but the rest of that scene was cut.
 
I can't remember the episode so don't know what happens in the cut scene. It can't be far from the original broadcast time, so why are they censoring. U& seem to have form for this.
Some channels have been known to broadcast daytime and a post-9pm versions of programmes, although now I see more censored programmes after 9pm. I wonder if the Porridge episode is censored on U player (or Channel 4 player). That is a rhetorical question, I've no intention of looking!

Of course, it may have been cut for timing purposes - more and more adverts.

Edit: Not on U or 4 players. On iPlayer.
 
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True, but the scene no longer made sense.
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This sort of editing, censorship - call it what you will - has been going on for a long time. Various foreign English language programmes, usually ones shown at a more appropriate time in the originating country, get edited to show at the "wrong" time in the UK. The number of times I've watched a programme where the scene doesn't make sense, or there is a reaction shot to something that hasn't happened - at least not in our version. There really is no excuse for Porridge. Now, certain episodes of Fawlty Towers may need a trim if shown too early. But here's the thing - don't show them too early. Show them after 9pm, with a warning if you must, and let the Major spout his, some would say, offensive language. 'Allo 'Allo might cause problems "Good moaning. I was pi55ing by the door when I heard two shats". I'm sure the though police would like to erase that one as well.

On a similar note. Not long after Talking Pictures TV started they screened an old film (The Clouded Yellow with Trevor Howard). I'd seen this film years before on Channel 4. There were several odd edits including the first scene establishing who the main character is was cut. Later two scenes were run together and it just didn't make sense. I complained to TPTV and AFAIK they've never shown it again. You'd think TPTV would source their films properly. Why do we have the American (sorry Ontario ;) ) version of an English film rather than the original. (eg. Fortune is a Woman (UK) not She Played With Fire (US) - only difference is the titles and the pronunciation of one word (as far as I can tell)). At least there were no odd edits in that film.
 
The way things are going, with the sensitivities of the little darlings who need to be warned what they are about to see in case it might over-stimulate them (isn't that the whole point??), there will be no TV before 9pm. How you deal with that when said little darlings don't use linear TV, I don't know!
 
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How you deal with that when said little darlings don't use linear TV, I don't know!
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Isn't that the whole purpose of the online protection act, banning under 16s and age verification - at least for the "little darlings". What you do about the over sensitive and over 16s I don't know. How long before you have to prove who you are and how old you and anyone watching with you are before a lock on the streaming service is released and you can watch a completely intact original version of (eg.) Fawlty Towers? Even better, stick it behind a pay-wall in the process. "Bleep" off!
 
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