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Drive' director Nicolas Winding Refn in F-word slip on BBC

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The BBC has apologised after Nicolas Winding Refn swore live on Breakfast this morning, as seen in the video below.

Speaking to presenter Bill Turnbull, the Drive director described the violence in his film as "a bit like f**king".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQIp2ydZhAo&feature=player_embedded

Reply 1

Phenomenological

Does anyone under the age of 30 even watch breakfast this morning? If not then what's the problem?

Reply 2

electriic_ink

It's OK to have a whole segment advertising a film on BBC Breakfast but it's not OK to say "****" :s-smilie:

Reply 3

ScheduleII

Original post by Phenomenological

Does anyone under the age of 30 even watch breakfast this morning? If not then what's the problem?

Watershed and our heavy handed censorship regime is the problem. All programmes transmitted before 9pm are expected to be suitable for under-16s.
Sky Arts recently ran into trouble with Ofcom for broadcasting a video with sexualised scenes such as a nipple being kissed in the daytime, despite it being an adult oriented service. The only exception is for channels which are not open-access; that is, you must pay for them separately.

Ofcom's rule, in a "protecting minors" section, states that the use of the "most offensive language" (defined as the f-word, motherf---er and c-word) is restricted to between 9pm and 5.30am. The BBC guidance also mentions "c***sucker" as similarly restricted.

In my understanding, the guidelines for pre watershed television are similar to the BBFC's "12A" certificate: most early evening series released on DVD get a 12. Sexual implication is allowed but not thrusting and moaning; nudity can be seen but not in a sexual context; violence usually lacks elements of imitable behaviour such as flick knives opening, ear-claps, strong headbutts and glamorisation of gang culture; some blood and injury detail is seen, quite a lot on the likes of Holby City and repeats of CSI, but close ups or particularly gory images are generally left out; sexual references are mild or moderate rather than graphic and crude; hard drug use is not normally shown with explicit detail (eg in EastEnders, we never actually see the crack pipe being smoked and in Corrie there are no needles going in, unlike shows such as Shameless, Skins and Wedding Belles.)

The guidelines allow for stronger material (eg re-runs of the 15 rated House and NCIS and some 15 rated films) during school hours in term time, as children are less likely to be present, but the absolute rule against the f-word and c-word still applies.