UK TV Censorship Rules on Movies Not as Relaxed as Claimed
“BBC, here in the UK. They used a hacksaw on horror, action movies and comedies like most 80s Eddie Murphy movies, even if they were shown after 11pm. It started with 48 Hrs through to Coming To America! By the mid-90s, the executives and OFCOM, UK TV censors relaxed most rules on swearing going by public feelings. Since the 2000s, UK network productions can have sex, violence and language as much as Hollywood movies!”
Summary
The BBC and UK regulators did tighten and later relax film and TV censorship, with swearing rules easing in the mid‑1990s and UK productions from the 2000s allowed content comparable to Hollywood. However, there is no evidence that the BBC used a “hacksaw” to edit horror, action or 1980s Eddie Murphy comedies, and the claim about systematic cuts of those films is inaccurate.
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- BBC film censored? - The National Archives
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/education/media/bbc-film-censored.mp3 Parliamentary question asked in the House of Commons by William Hamilton MP about the TV film ‘The War Game’, December 1965 (CAB 21/5808) Transcript PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION Mr.
- Broadcast - BBC Programme Index
Discover 11,172,921 listings and 277,631 playable programmes from the BBC · by Richard Matheson. Dramatised by Hugh Leonard. (Colour)
- Horror
Historic England names its favourite frightening film locations in its first Horror Histories list. ... Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times. ... Forty years ago, the mad scientist comedy-horror was released to meagre box-office.
- Banned movies: The films that vexed the censor - BBC News
Enter the hidden world of the British Board of Film Classification's written archive and a hundred years of film censorship are laid bare.
- BBC Audio | Screenshot | Censorship
As the British Board of Film Classification publishes its new guidelines, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode delve into the long, chequered history of film censorship and classification in the UK.
- Banned movies: The films that vexed the censor - BBC News
Enter the hidden world of the British Board of Film Classification's written archive and a hundred years of film censorship are laid bare.
- BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot - Eight films that caused problems for British censors
The BBFC passed the film without cuts and even consulted with a psychologist to see if the film was potentially dangerous (they said it wasn't.) But the Mail launched an aggressive press campaign against the film to get it banned, claiming it ...
- List of horror television programs - Wikipedia
In the early 1980s, Hammer Films had their second attempt at television work with Hammer House of Horror, an hour-long anthology show that was later reworked into a format for made-for-television films, known as Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. Other early series included a pilot for the show Comedy ...
- Liste von Horrorfilmen der 1980er Jahre – Wikipedia
Die Liste von Horrorfilmen der 1980er Jahre gibt einen chronologischen Überblick über Produktionen, die im Zeitraum von 1980 bis 1989 in diesem Genre gedreht wurden. Bei der Nutzung ist zu beachten, dass ein Großteil der aufgeführten Filme sich mit artverwandten Genres aus dem Bereich der ...
- Film d'horreur — Wikipédia
Les films qui contournent cette ... de poursuites qui bat son plein au début des années 1980. La censure s'assouplit considérablement, du moins dans les pays occidentaux, à partir de la fin des années 1990....
- Liste de films censurés en France — Wikipédia
Les derniers films à s’être ... Jaguar et Maison pour SS); l'année suivante, en 1980, des décisions de maintien d'interdiction totale d'exploitation furent prises pour trois films déjà interdits auparavant (Né pour l'enfer, Maison pour SS et La grande peu...
- Der Horrorfilm: Highlights der 80er Jahre | Moviepilot.de
Der klassische Horrorfilm aus dem britischen Hamme...
- Video Nasty: Neue ARD-Serie über verbotene Horrorfilme und 80er-Jahre-Wahnsinn
Immer wieder bauen Autor Hugh Travers sowie die Regisseure Christopher Smith und Megan K Fox von altmodischen Fernsehern abgefilmte, grobkörnige Ausschnitte der echten "Video Nasty"-Klassiker ein, die sich die Helden der Serie "reinziehen". Doch keine Angst. Alle Film-im-Film-Szenen sind so gewählt, dass die irisch-englische BBC-Produktion, die auch über eine ARD-Kooperation entstand, jüngere Zuschauende nicht verstört.
- Horreur, censure et souvenirs inventés dans «Censor» | Le Devoir
Campé au milieu des années 1980, Censor tourne autour d’Enid, une fonctionnaire du British Board of Classification, dont le rôle est d’évaluer les films d’horreur et de décider des coupes à apporter. Or, un jour, dans une de ces productions fauchées, elle assiste à une scène qui semble reproduire un de ses souvenirs d’enfance : une balade en forêt jadis avec sa sœur, qui disparut alors sans laisser de traces.
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