Gillian Anderson's accent was perfect to my ears. She did spend a lot of time here when she was younger, and she's done other UK work including Great Expectations, The Crimson Petal and the White and Any Human Heart amongst other things.
As for the nudity/swearing? The rules in general are that you can't have it before 9pm. And the issues with some post-9pm shows are that they start full of nudity or swearing - the regulator doesn't like you airing it at 9.01pm. An announcer will say at the start whether a programme contains anything strong, and it'll be included in electronic listings. I suppose the equivalent of US TV ratings but a bit more specific. In general BBC1 is more mainstream than BBC2 (which was where The Fall aired) and BBC2 can be edgier. BBC3 is the youth channel so swearing is more prevalent. And BBC4, the arts channel, gets away with a bit too. I think that producers still have to argue their case for some stronger material. Is it really justified? But there are no banned words as such, and only strong real sex is banned (and even then, there have been exceptions - The Idiots by Lars von Trier has aired unedited on Channel 4). I think the Torchwood case was simply that Starz pretty much demanded additional sex scenes and they weren't really justifiable. Not for a BBC1 audience. There's a similar thing at the moment, with BBC1 having started broadcasting The White Queen (a bit like The Tudors from what I can tell). It goes out at 9pm on Sunday nights here, but again it's a Starz co-production. According to what I've read, the Starz edit will again have additional/extended sex scenes because that's what that network wants. It's pretty clear to me that most US premium cable channels demand that sex is added into the mix for their series - at the very least in the pilot - to get eyeballs. Oh. And unlike the US, violence is deemed as important as nudity or bad language. I don't think there's a US crime drama currently on air that would air in an unedited form before 9pm. And with the "none of it at 9.01pm" rule, that really means 10pm. So channels like Sky Atlantic which aired The Following, and Sky Living which airs Hannibal, put them out at 10pm. The rules aren't different for paid for channels like those, although Sky Atlantic seems to have been OK running Game of Thrones at 9pm. But subscription film channels can air 15 rated films (think strong PG, softer R) pre-watershed as long as the channel is PIN-locked. You still can't run 18 rated films prior to 9pm. Live broadcasts include the odd F-bomb, but as long as the broadcaster apologises they're usually OK. A recent ITV daytime show had a slip up with a live interview. And the BBC got caught out mic-ing up one of the coxes in this year's Oxford v Cambridge boat race. The cox used his entire vocabulary to encourage his crew. In retrospect, mic-ing them up was a bad idea. Adam (part of who's job it is to know the radio rules and deal with said regulator) On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > The most recent Ofcom report has six complaints on "The Fall" (which aired > at 9 p.m., right at the beginning of the "watershed" that allows adult > programming, five for "Generally accepted standards" and one for > "Religious/Beliefs discrimination/offence." All are under the "Complaints > assessed, not investigated" category. Among the other shows in this > category are six BBC TV newscasts and one radio newscast, "Big Brother," > horse racing telecasts, ITV IDs, "Coronation Street," "Deal or No Deal," > "Dog With a Blog" (on Disney, of course), "EastEnders," "Emmerdale," a > bingo web site (?) sponsoring Jeremy Kyle's Springer-esque talk show, "Game > of Thrones," the animated version of "Mr. Bean" (I assume animated since it > was on Boomerang, which serves the same purpose to Cartoon Network in > Europe as it does in the U.S.), various music videos, the RT channel, three > Sky newscasts, "The Apprentice" (Sir Alan Sugar, not Trump), Graham Norton, > the movie "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Voice," U.S. Open golf > coverage and the "Candid Camera" knockoff "You've Been Framed!" > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > [email protected] > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just finished The BBC's “The Fall” and it was good. This stars Gillian >> Anderson as a British investigator trying to track down a serial murderer. >> It is almost a cross because “Dexter” and “The Wire.” >> This aired originally on the BBC, and I have questions for any British >> members of the list. Are there any besides Adam Bowie? >> No. !: I know when shows outside prime time air the rules on nudity and >> profanity are relaxed. That's why “Torchwood” got toned down after it's >> first season, when it was moved into the British equivalent of prime time. >> But I was surprised by the obscenity and nudity on “The Fall.” I mean agent >> Scully is in a push up bra humping a dude at one point. And they drop F >> bombs several times. This is allowed on The BBC? Was it unusual? A Google >> search for protests turned up nothing. >> No. 2: Anderson's accent seems authentic to my Murican ear. How does it >> sound to Brits? >> They do a great job of photographing Anderson. I'm partial to redheads >> anyway. But she looks especially enticing here. A character even comments >> on her allure to men at one point. >> The photography is great in other ways, too. I loved one shot where the >> camera moves from in a room and tracks several room in a household from up >> top. It looks like it is shot in real time and they do a good job telling >> the story without saying much. >> Also, I mentioned “The Wire.” The creators of the “The Wire” talk about >> how so much acting is done with the eyes. If they gave an Emmy for eye >> acting James Dornan, who plays the killer, would be a lock. Several times >> they set the tone of the scene just by capturing the lookin Dornan's eyes, >> wheather it's a creepy killer, love or fear. >> Anderson's plate is full but I'm guessing she''ll find time to continue >> the story. “The Fall” is another good British export to the United States. >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... 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