Televison censorship

[JWRosser]

Ok so last night, Family Guy's "Something, Something Darkside" premièred on British television. Now, I watched this on the internet a few months ago and I was shocked after watching it on TV to discover that they omit so much of the content, including some of the best jokes!

Spoiler

In "Something, Something Darkside", for example, the absolute hilarious scene where Han/Peter is about to be frozen, instead of "I love you" "Fuck off", it's now "I love you" "BEEEEEP" which completely takes away the edge. Likewise when Luke/Chris climbs up inside one of the walkers (I forget the actual name of them) and there is a foetus one in there, and he says "Come on, Luke, we're at war".

It just seems that so many good jokes from shows like Family Guy are cut when aired on television, yet programmes like South Park which, in my opinion, are more vulgar and to the edge, remain mostly uncut.
Does this happen in the States too? And why?
I would have thought that after 9, or even 10 o'clock when these programmes are aired, nothing should be uncut (unless of course it exceeds its like schedule, which this did not)

 

[Fusoiya]

Euhm I don't think they actually censor anything in Holland/The Netherlands :<, heh gues I'm lucky like that go us!

 

[tomtom94]

You know why that is? It's because on British television it has been (very quietly) made illegal to use "fuck" as a verb.

Do not ask me why. I just know it to be true.
And I think it's bullshit too.

 

[Ekit]

We don't have much censorship here in Sweden. Atleast I don't think so...

 

[crudus]

The censorship you are talking about doesn't happen as much here since the shows are made here and we know what we can get away with. Some channels like Comedy Central have free reign of what they can say and show from the hours of 2am and 6am.

You know why that is? It's because on British television it has been (very quietly) made illegal to use "fuck" as a verb.

Do not ask me why. I just know it to be true.
And I think it's bullshit too.

But as a participle or adverb we are good?

 

[BonsaiK]

If I was the censor I'd cut Family Guy completely. For LACK of jokes.

As it is I don't watch TV these days so TV censorship - meh.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Euhm I don't think they actually censor anything in Holland/The Netherlands :<, heh gues I'm lucky like that go us!

They didn't used, but recently they have been censoring voilent movies like, Die Hard With a Vengeance and Gladiator. Only the really gruesome bits but you can still tell they cut some stuff. And the funny thing is that BBC used to censor violent movies a lot, but now they leave all the gore alone.

 

[fenrizz]

We don't have much censorship here in Sweden. Atleast I don't think so...

Not over here in Norway either.

Things rarely get cencored, and certainly not words and/or lyrics on Tv and in songs.


I feel sorry for you Brits and Yanks that have to put up with that kind of bull.
It is very sad indeed.

 

[tomtom94]

The censorship you are talking about doesn't happen as much here since the shows are made here and we know what we can get away with. Some channels like Comedy Central have free reign of what they can say and show from the hours of 2am and 6am.

You know why that is? It's because on British television it has been (very quietly) made illegal to use "fuck" as a verb.

Do not ask me why. I just know it to be true.
And I think it's bullshit too.

But as a participle or adverb we are good?

You're allowed to use it as an adjective, I don't know how exactly one would use it as an adverb, as for participles...not sure about that.