Lazzard
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 12:03pm [Edited]
Ludlow
8,382 posts
Quote: tenbeersbold @ 22nd March 2022, 11:39 AM
Here's another fact for you from the article;
"However, it has since been reported that BBC chose to cut that particular scene out when it has aired re-runs in the past."
Oh and just to clear up another of your misunderstandings
From wikipedia;
BritBox is a U.S. subscription video on-demand service owned by BBC Worldwide and ITV plc
Oh and I have actually watched the recent Karen Dunbar docu where she actually sits in as the BBC censors decide what to cut from Chewin' the Fat.
Now that couldn't be clearer now could it.
The BBC censors/edits its archive and Britbox is owned by the BBC.
Glad I could straighten that out for you!
We are in a tizzy, aren't we?
Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that in the tabloids the word 'reported' is the same as 'allegedly' - ie unsubstantiated.
Also I know what Britbox is.
I also know that a BBC spokesman and a Britbox spokesmen are not and would never be the same - it's that old ounce of sense thing again.
And (sadly for you) I too watched the documentary.
The sequence where they went through all of two "Chewin' the Fat" sketches was not part of the BBC censors process.
It was set up especially for the programme. Hence the 'CANCELLED' title and comedy klaxon.
Or did you think that's how they actually do it?
The woman was simply demonstrating the type of thing that might get flagged up - NOT cut. Karen herself made this point moments after this section.
She then said " On the very rare occasion that happens.." and went off to talk to Shane Allen, then Head of Comedy at the BBC who proceeds to say how everyone thinks that trigger warnings are enough, and editing is the absolute last resort.
I think you're getting riled up over nothing - which of course is the intention of those behind articles like this.
