Looking back through the archives in 2002, NBN Television, Nine Network affiliate in Northern NSW, have a PG classification warning. Contains medical procedures.
(NBN Television And also WIN Television had Tim Elliott and Ken Sparkes as voiceover blokes for the classification billboards instead of The local voiceover guy.)
There are no shortage of alternate ways to watch movies in this day and age that don’t involve shitty, ofted edited FTA runs with hours of commercials and promo shit.
Classification Review Board once again permits the use of the ‘C-word’ in an “M” classifiation (overturning the original Classification Board “MA15+” ruling), a carbon copy example of 12 years ago… All because of “context”:
NB/ Commercial FTA TV never allows the ‘C-word’ in an M classification, always MA, even movies where the CB ruled differently, the network instead omitting the word(s) or bumping it up to MA.
I am possibly misremembering but I am sure that the C word was used on Winners & Losers in one episode by Bec. I am happy to be wrong, it may have only been the F word which still would have been rare then.
It would have been the “F” word. I doubt they would have used the “C” word on that show.
I can remember the outrage when John Howard dropped the “F” word on All Saints. It was a word that had not been heard on that show before, even though it was an M show.
I remember that. I also remember Rob Sitch had a rant on The Panel, so that would have been late 90s, when he shouted “Who the f— are you?” talking about Donna Gubbay after The Panel played some clip of her on E News. I remember his rant caused a bit of a stir, of course, well before social media. These days it would probably not raise an eyebrow.
I still cringe when I hear profanity used in public, particularly around females and older people. I love a filthy joke and I do swear at times but I like to think I only do it in appropriate situations. I complained to management in a licensed venue once when a group seated near my family was loudly dropping such words while we were dining. There was signage in the venue warning against inappropriate language.
Can’t believe how many times the “C” word was used throughout the eight seasons of Game of Thrones.
There must be a lot of fruity language flying around the Sitch household. Jane Kennedy dropped the F word on the Kennedy Molloy show last year and it wasn’t dumped. Triple M made her do some additional radio standards training after that incident.
we all know Graham Kennedy’s suspect F-bomb crow call in 1975, but Mary Hardy said it before then, rather bluntly apparently, on The Penthouse Club in 1974 when a karate segment didn’t quite go to plan. She was banned by the Broadcasting Control Board but they eventually relented.
It happens more than you think. A few times on Fitzy and Wippa, they’ve hit the dump button when they or a guest dropped it.
One time this year, Fitzy accidently dropped one in conversation. He was really excited and agitated when recalling a story from the weekend and it slipped through. It was quick and he hadn’t even realised he’d done it so the conversation kept going until Wippa cracked up and explained what he’d done. He asked him a question and suggested he keep his answer clean this time. Fitzy was lost because he hadn’t even noticed but the rest of the team had and just cracked up. Fitzy apologised later.
It was a word that had not been heard on that show before, even though it was an M show.
