Subject: Re: UK apparently censoring Maddie's murder scend
From: ccsdra@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Dave Allum)
Date: 1991-04-30, 04:27
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...

Not so.  The episode was shown and a few people (eight I think) complained
to the broadcasting standards watchdog.  The BBC's response was that the
scene was artistically justified.