Subject: Re: UK Broadcasting standards Council...
From: GIOVIN%HECTOR@ecs.umass.edu (Rocky Giovinazzo)
Date: 1991-05-01, 18:50
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >From: plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David Barker-Plummer)
> >Subject: Re: UK Broadcasting standards Council...
> >Before you guys get too carried away.  Remember that TP is *pretty
> >unusual* for U.S. television.  I haven't lived in the U.K. for five
> >years now but despite this recent controversy, British T.V.
> >characteristically plays a *much* broader spectrum of programmes 95%
> >of which are more innovative than 99% of the garbage that appears over
> >here.  
Of course British television is characteristically better, but
the "attack on Madeline" scene is one of the most amazing and thrilling
few minutes of television or cinema I have ever run across.  To say that
such excellent work was unfit for viewing is *ridiculous*.
Thank God no one discovered it early enough to censor it.

Rocky Giovinazzo