The Forbidden Weekend – The BBC’s Censorship Season
Film censorship explored in a 1995 BBC season of controversial movies and documentaries that explore the BBFC and British moral attitudes.
Tag: Channel 4
Happy New Year From Filthy The Dog
Starting as we mean to go on, let Filthy the Dog bring you woofing into 2024.
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Scream Queens On The Word
The stars of American straight-to-video horror appear on the infamous Friday night Channel 4 show.
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Dancing With The Devil – A Music Censorship Documentary From 1991
A Channel 4 exploration of Christian hysteria about the evils of rock music.
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Oh Brother!
Why the return of the reality TV flagship show is nothing to put the bunting out for.
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You Are What You Watch: How ‘Diet Reality’ Gave Us Super-Sized Misery
Sickbags at the ready as we delve further into the world of hypocritical, exploitative and sensationalist ‘self-improvement’ television.
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Shattered And The Rise Of Reality TV
As Channel 4 broadcasts hand-wringing documentaries about the mental health of reality stars, a reminder of how it has routinely made dangerous and exploitative TV shows for ratings and profit, fatuously disguised as ‘social experiments’.
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It Doesn’t Add Up: Carol Vorderman And The Shady World Of Financial Advertising
The former Countdown presenter’s curious history with the murky worlds of debt consolidation and equity release.
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Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?
Are some people taking seriously the lyrics of a comic song written nearly 70 years ago? That’s the way it looks.
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Louise Woodward: The Making Of A Media Martyr
The conflicting evidence, lost facts, fervent nationalism and tabloid-driven hysteria surrounding one of the most notorious trials of the 1990s.
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Yes, It’s The Benny Hill Show!
The kerfuffle over the famous comedian’s return to UK TV.
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Naked Fury: The Moral Panic Over Naked Attraction’s Cheeky Advertising
How a cheeky but harmless advertising campaign wound up the easily offended.
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