ACMA investigating Underbelly after Festival of Light complaint
The ACMA is investigating claims by extreme-right Christian group Festival of Light (FoL) that the Nine Network crime series Underbelly breached television classification guidelines on five different occasions. According to News Ltd, the FoL complaint suggests strong coarse language, drug use and nudity have all been aired at an inappropriate time. They want Underbelly reclassified...
You can’t say c*nt in the kitchen
South Australian Liberal Party Senator, Cory Bernardi, has called for an examination into the effectiveness of the broadcasting codes of practice for radio and television. Why? Bernardi isn’t happy that the chef famous for swearing, Gordon Ramsay, swears on Australian TV. Supposedly, Channel 9 broadcast Ramsay saying cunt in an episode of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares...
Underbelly causes outrage, not to be shown in Victoria
News.com.au says Channel Nine’s new show Underbelly has a “violent bashing, a sex scene, liberal use of the “F” word and a graphic shooting in cold blood – and that’s the first 20 minutes.” Naturally, family groups like the AFA (the same people who said a stage play that depicted Jesus as gay man was...
