The music rights issue re: Brooke Shields' episode are said to be ongoing, so that episode may be posted sooner rather than later.
As for the content warnings, I have no issue with them as long as the episode itself is kept intact. (I spotted it in front of the Kenny Rogers episode where the warning stemmed from a somewhat insensitive portrayal of oilmen of middle-eastern origin.) On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 1:33:19 PM UTC-5 Jim Ellwanger wrote: > The Brooke Shields episode's absence really shouldn't be mentioned in the > same sentence as the Chris Langham episode -- word is that the reason the > Brooke Shields episode is entirely missing is because of a music rights > issue with the song "We're Off to See the Wizard," and it's too difficult > to excise only that song from the episode. (The entire episode is an "Alice > in Wonderland" pastiche, with "We're Off to See the Wizard" being used as > the grand finale for reasons involving Fozzie Bear being dressed as the Tin > Man.) > > On Feb 22, 2021, at 10:02 AM, Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The long-awaited streaming debut of "The Muppet Show" occurred Friday on > Disney+, but Disney has slapped content warnings on 18 episodes containing > what they claim are racist or stereotypical views--this post from NBC's LX > gives some examples: > > > https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/the-confederate-flag-gypsy-curses-and-other-reasons-disney-plus-slapped-content-warnings-on-the-muppet-show/2444208/ > > The flagged episodes are: > Jim Nabors, Joel Grey, Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, Cleo Laine, James > Coco, Spike Milligan, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Beverly Sills, Jonathan > Winters, Alan Arkin, James Coburn, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Debbie Harry, > Wally Boag and Marty Feldman. > > In addition, EW says that the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes > are not included. (Langham, a Brit writer for the series, was convicted > in 2007 for possessing child porn, which makes him as much a non-person in > his country as Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris.) In addition, there is some > editing for music rights reasons. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6e5bfa05-d7a0-4ace-bae8-5634d590a0f5n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6e5bfa05-d7a0-4ace-bae8-5634d590a0f5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/fd5adb83-2f62-4f5e-8ec5-8989072f3817n%40googlegroups.com.
