Subject: Re: UK apparently censoring Maddie's murder scend
From: mrh@maths.nott.ac.uk (Michael R Hart)
Date: 1991-04-30, 06:53
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Apr30.000801.5003@ingres.Ingres.COM> daveb@Ingres.COM (Dave Brower) writes:
> >An article I read in the SF Chronicle sometime in the last few days said
> >that the Beeb had decided that the scene was completely over the line
> >and would not be shown.  Sorry I don't have the article or the exact
> >wording here.  Did anyone else see this?  What will they do, cut out the
> >stuff they don't like or axe the whole episode?  Killing the episode
> >would cause some continuity problems...

This is not exactly what has happened.  Some new "Standards" council
decided that the above mentioned scene was indeed over the top, but this
decision has been made in retrospect of the broadcast of the scene.
Presumably someone (e.g. Mary Whitehouse for those of you
familiar with UK TV) protested about the graphic portrayal of
Maddie's demise and felt that they ought to have some redress on the matter.

If they rescreen TP over here then I feel sure that this scene will be
heavily edited. A similar thing happened with a scene from Doctor Who
a few years ago and sure enough when that particular episode was
rescreened the offending shot was excised.

BTW TP has been suspended here for three weeks because of the televising
of the World Snooker Championship. I'm a snooker fan, but this is too
much :-)
-- ================================================================================ Mike Hart mrh@maths.nott.ac.uk ================================================================================