I’m noticing that the BBC have been chided by Ofcom for showing Pulp Fiction ten minutes after the watershed. Apparently, the scenes of “…seriously offensive language, graphic violence and drug abuse” were too lurid at the time it was broadcast.
So what’s the point in the watershed then? If there are still limits to what can be broadcast after it, why have it at all?
It’s like Larry David’s phone call cut off time. Is after 10.30 ok on a weeknight?
Of course, there are no clear guidelines set. So, Ofcom aren’t telling the BBC specifically what to do, just not to do what they haven’t been clear about again. Understand? Of course you do.
I’m no huge fan of the BBC, but this is on the hoof regulation that ill-behoves the broadcasting industry and does the viewers (a whole 9 of whom complained about Tarantino’s classic) no favours whatsoever.
If a broadcaster wants to show a film with adult content after an imposed nine o’clock cut off point, then that should be the end of the argument and viewers should be prepared to take responsibility for their own television consumption in any case.
The bleating cretins who actually take the time to call up and complain about a piece of art because it has a swear word in it or to express some other, equally absurd grievance annoy me no end, and exemplify a weak-minded, coddled section of the public who expect others to do their thinking for them. Maybe one day we will learn that these "people" are best left utterly ignored.
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