you naughty naughty british people
Another letter from my hometown newspaper’s opinion page:
Eye-opening experience
Parents, beware! If you have children of any age, be sure to use your parental controls on your TV or cable box.
I was flipping through channels last Tuesday night and got a shock! On channel 41 BBC at around 9:30 p.m. they showed full upper female nudity! And I am not talking about a short, little glimpse, I am talking about seeing breasts for more than a minute, dead center.
I could not believe it. I had never seen nudity on regular cable before, so I called Time Warner to see what was going on. They said that the network can put out what they want, and that I need to use the parental controls on my TV or cable box to block the programming.
So, please, parents, let’s keep our children innocent. Be responsible for what your kids watch! This experience has definitely opened my eyes.
Valerie Popp, Lincoln
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Good thing she does can’t get Chiba TV’s Friday night 1am programming in Nebraska. I don’t exactly know what the BBC was showing that was so titillating(!), but I doubt it was a nekkid lady in a love hotel reading dirty manga books out loud in not so PG-friendly tones.
i liked the friday night photography lesson that chiba tv 5 provided.
Comment by kevin — 11/16/2005 @ 8:33 am
“How to take the ladies Photograph”
yep.
Comment by John — 11/16/2005 @ 10:46 am
You know we have a show on BBC2 called “Rome” just started 2 weeks ago, shows full frontal
female and male nudity. That airs at 21:00.
We don’t see a problem with it, it’s in keeping with the atmosphere of the age and it’s not
considered obscene. If anything, the parents try to keep kids from watching violence rather
than sex. Which I agree with.
Its a cultural difference.
Comment by James Gornall — 11/23/2005 @ 10:56 am
I agree with the violence vs the nudity thing. Kind of like the whole Bush vs Gore election of 2000. (Bada-bing) I know nothing of this new Rome show, but it sounds good, not because of the nudity but because it is on the BBC and so it must be well done. I remember a BBC show that a history teacher in high school showed us, I thinkt he title was “Connections” and it blew me away. There was also a crusades documentary hosted by one of the Monty Python guys that we were shown.
One thing I have noticed here in Japan, some of the diaper commercials on tv feature babies not wearing diapers, something that actually happens in real life, but never on american TV. I am not saying this out of a desire to see full frontal baby nudity, but rather to say that if that was to be shown on TV in america (or at least Nebraska) folks would be outraged and again want to “Save the children” from such immorality”.
Comment by John — 11/25/2005 @ 1:21 pm