--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > On 05/08/2012 10:00 AM, salyavin808 wrote: > > > > > > Wondering what they would censor from Sherlock though, must be > > > a sensitive bunch over there.... > > > > They think that everyone in the mid-west is a Bible thumper. > > I have to agree with salyavin here. I have seen all of > the first six "Sherlock" episodes, and I don't see what > an American network could *possibly* find to censor. > > For the Danish TV series I've been talking about, I can > see it. There are titties and dicks all over the screen > in those, *completely* devoid of "prurient interest." > They're just shots of people being naked, the way > people are naked from time to time in real life. But > I can understand some network executive seeing them and > going, "A tit! Can't have that on our network!" > > But for "Sherlock?" The only even remotely steamy episode > in the series is the one I wrote about the other day, and > the nudity in that one is handled so gracefully and so > humorously that I simply can't comprehend anyone wanting > to cut a frame of it. >
It was artfully done. Did you catch the BBC version of Dirk Gently though? Oh dear. Missed opportunity, they could have made one of their best shows out of the first Gently novel - it's probably my fave Adams novel - but the TV version was a very pale shadow.
