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G-Rated Shows On Food Network

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Anyone notice every single program on Food Network is rated "TV-G"? You would think that a few of them once in awhile would get "TV-PG." For instance, this week, the show "Restaurant Impossible" had a restaurant owner that dropped several F-bombs, granted they were bleeped out, but still, you'd think that would be a candidate for a "TV-PG" rating... Also, some episodes of "Mystery Diners" are ripe for a "TV-PG", as well.
 
This reminds me of the Travel Channel having certain editions of the program "Man v. Food" with its host saying expletives hidden by "bleeps" rated "TV-G".
 
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Sometimes I think some networks give an entire series a particular rating without accounting for the content of different episodes. I've always thought TV Land was off base in giving episodes of Roseanne a TV-G rating. Some episodes may have qualified, but there are others with enough sexual content that they should have been rated TV-PG or 14. But then I can remember that CNBC gave reruns of Deal or No Deal a TV-14 rating when they had been rated TV-PG on NBC.
 
Even "Kitchen Nightmares" - which has always bore a TV-14 rating when it aired first-run on Fox - has blanket TV-PG ratings when reruns air on FYI Network. I think BBC America gives episodes TV-14 ratings, though.
 
Scripps Networks merely gives the barest of lip service to the TV ratings system; it seems like they don't even have anyone on-staff to rate their programming because which parent, even one of the hardliners in the Parents Television Council, is going to ever complain about a program on HGTV, Food Network or the Travel Channel? I'm sure it'll get them in trouble one day if some programmer decides to put a 'sexy' cooking show on in late night and they just throw on the blanket TV-G, but they seem to be in the silent 'yes, we know most of you have the good sense not to plant your kid in front of Restaurant Impossible' camp of parental discretion.
 
DToTheJ said:
Even "Kitchen Nightmares" - which has always bore a TV-14 rating when it aired first-run on Fox - has blanket TV-PG ratings when reruns air on FYI Network. I think BBC America gives episodes TV-14 ratings, though.
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Moreso too, the BBC America airings of "Kitchen Nightmares" don't bleep out the "s***" word, whilst the other networks that show it do.
 
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