When you find the New Zealand version of board classification doyen @Sully…
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Oi! 
That’s pretty hilarious though.
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On the 27th of January, 7flix are airing The Simpsons episode “Werking Mom”
Apparently, it has been classified “M”
Has the Code of Practice been changed?
Source:
https://www.foxtel.com.au/tv-guide/The-Simpsons/119796378
I’d guess that Seven has made a mistake and will change it when someone realises the error.
It now reads PG on the aforementioned Foxtel guide.
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Official state government school holidays underway around the country at the moment (majority coincided with Easter), all states back next Monday (19th) except for South Australia which just started yesterday.
As such, no “M” content during early-mid afternoon day time until they’re finished in any market, as usual.
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And just for interest sake:
Recorded King Kong (2005) on Easter Sunday on 9Go! (7:30pm) and this was after the first week of Nine’s technical problems. It might’ve been the first day of trialing out new emergency presentation as we’re seeing currently, etc (be it from NPC Media, GTV Melb or somehow still from TCN North Sydney), as it had no PRGs, watermark faded in-out (like Seven) at each break and classification warning was present but was generic and was incorrect (had “PG Stylised Violence” but the version was actually definitely “M” and after first ad had a “PG” bug but then an “M” bug after every other break.
I’m sure nobody else noticed nor will complain, but the ACMA have officially warned Nine previously (when they were splitting movies and airing two classifications in the one program) and this time its also the incorrect lower classification in a higher version, probably wouldn’t be too happy. But they’ve probably got a valid excuse (major tech issues).
Unlikely that if Seven get rights to earlier Simpsons seasons, they will be G.
“Homer to the Max” and “Lisa gets an A” on Ten uncut, plain G.
Those episodes on Seven uncut, PG with Mature Themes
Yeah, there’s no reason for Seven to give any episode a G rating these days. They will all be minimum PG even if it isn’t warranted.
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Different classifiers reviewed obviously and each may have a different interpretation, not to mention the multiple federal framework updates to classification over the past 30 years.
Perhaps Seven felt, even if a very minor instance, that some thematic content (following current frameworks, impact tests and interpretations) in these aforementioned episodes now warranted a higher classification and consumer advice?
It also helps that Seven would be airing uncensored episodes considering Ten cut content from most of the Season 2-9 episodes on the 6pm rotation to get those consistent G ratings.
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I saw your cap’s file name, so this was Today Extra? The morning shows are uually “PG” aren’t they, but usually just a plain/generic one without consumer advice. Being the pre-recorded weekend edition, I wonder if there was an internal flag or someone noticed or complained (or maybe a producer alerted the classification team)? Regardless, a rarity.
Mild impact nudity is usually always for a bare bottom 
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Seven classified the wrong version of The Hangover tonight (which has been aired once before on the network earlier this year). Would be interesting to know how Nine aired/edited it when they aired it.
The version that aired was uncut and the end credits were aired which included nude photographs, a few of which (even if very brief and from a distance but still quite visible) included a woman performing oral sex on one of the male characters with a seemingly real penis seen.
This alone made the CB classify the movie R18+ High Impact Sexual Images which was released on DVD. It was edited to MA15+ for cinemas and initial DVD omitting these images.
The classification Seven aired tonight was for this latter version. They absolutely breached the ACMA Code by airing R18+ on FTA TV.
Clearly their classifiers didn’t read the CB report for this movie (as networks regularly say they do in investigation reports), otherwise it would’ve been obvious which was which and what needed to be done. This was careless and perhaps rushed.
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Naughty!
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slap on the wrist
“We will review our classification practices.”
Done
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LOL so true though
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Seven showed the movie in a two hour slot, but the R18+ version on the censorship database is over two hours long?
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Because it includes all the DVD special features, etc
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continuing in appropriate thread
Stripes was last classified by the CB on 15 May 1985 for videotape as “M”. This was before the system was overhauled in early 1993. So could potentially be raised to MA today for its nudity.
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But the other two I’ll cop, as they have both been re-classified since 1993 and have held the original “M” classificarions:
Life of Brian just two years ago for a theatrical re-release on 20 March 2019.
The Woman In Red on 16 September 2004 for DVD (NB/ back when MGM had an office here doing their own theatrical and home entertainment for a few years at the peak of DVDs). Oddly, nudity wasn’t even listed in the consumer advice.
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Not for nudity alone. Depends what acts are depicted while nude or other factors in the movie.
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