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South Park: The Broacast Premiere

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I saw a promo for "South Park: The Broadcast Premiere" last night. Wait a minute, if you take all the profanity out of a South Park episode, wouldn't it run about three minutes? Will they have to re-do the dialogue?<P ID="signature">______________
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> I saw a promo for "South Park: The Broadcast Premiere" last
> night. Wait a minute, if you take all the profanity out of a
> South Park episode, wouldn't it run about three minutes?
> Will they have to re-do the dialogue?
>
Parker & Stone have probably recorded two versions of the episodes' dialogue. I'm sure many episodes won't be seen in syndication, unless stations air them late at night with a viewer discretion warning.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > I saw a promo for "South Park: The Broadcast Premiere"
> last
> > night. Wait a minute, if you take all the profanity out of
> a
> > South Park episode, wouldn't it run about three minutes?
> > Will they have to re-do the dialogue?
> >
> Parker & Stone have probably recorded two versions of the
> episodes' dialogue. I'm sure many episodes won't be seen in
> syndication, unless stations air them late at night with a
> viewer discretion warning.
>
KCAL-TV 9 in L.A. is running two episodes a night from 11pm to Midnight, up against Sex And The City on KTLA-TV 5
 
> Trey Parker & Matt Stone have probably recorded two versions of the
> episodes' dialogue. I'm sure many episodes won't be seen in
> syndication, unless stations air them late at night with a
> viewer discretion warning.
>

They certainally won't be airing the "S---" episode! :)
 
WB-11 in NYC is airing it at 1:30AM. Not sure what time FOX 61 in Hartford is running it.
 
I would have to agree that the producers put together two versions of every "South Park" episode--the raw version for cable, and a "sanitized" version that could be shown on over-the-air television.

I suspect the producers of "Sex And The City" and "The Sopranos" did the same thing.
 
>
> I suspect the producers of "Sex And The City" and "The
> Sopranos" did the same thing.
>
Try telling that to CTV in Canada -- they aired the original HBO version of Sopranos -- uncut.
 
> Parker & Stone have probably recorded two versions of the
> episodes' dialogue. I'm sure many episodes won't be seen in
> syndication, unless stations air them late at night with a
> viewer discretion warning.

It is being heavily edited, and from what I can recall (from an article in B&C several months back) you're also right that some episodes aren't being included in the syndication package.

But that is probably not being done just to satisfy the FCC's indecency rules -- I doubt it is going to run before 10 PM anywhere, which means it is technically in the FCC's "safe harbor" for indecent programming.
 
> Try telling that to CTV in Canada -- they aired the original
> HBO version of Sopranos -- uncut.

They can get away with that, thanks to the CRTC.
 
> I would have to agree that the producers put together two
> versions of every "South Park" episode--the raw version for
> cable, and a "sanitized" version that could be shown on
> over-the-air television.
>
> I suspect the producers of "Sex And The City" and "The
> Sopranos" did the same thing.
>
HBO did shop around a cleaned up version of 'Sex And The City'. The episodes airing in syndication and on TBS air with edited dialogue.<P ID="signature">______________

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And, being in the 'States, I had thought that the CTV version of "The Sopranos" had been "sanitized" for broadcast television on both sides of the border!
 
> And, being in the 'States, I had thought that the CTV
> version of "The Sopranos" had been "sanitized" for broadcast
> television on both sides of the border!
>

Considering that Canadian broadcasting rules aren't as restrictive as the FCC's, more stations in the Great White North take chances and push the envelope.

And on the topic of "South Park", Global shows (or has shown) South Park unedited in late night. They also shown the series in prime-time, but edited it for questionable content, as kids were still up.
 
> Considering that Canadian broadcasting rules aren't as
> restrictive as the FCC's, more stations in the Great White
> North take chances and push the envelope.

Canadians don't pander to a minority of special interest groups that lose their mind everytime there is a positive portrayal of some group they don't like or a hint of sexual content.

A larger percentage of the country goes hypocritical over things like the wardrobe malfunction that was the equivalent of Adriane Barbeau showing a nipple in the movie The Fog. Only if you paused your Tivo and went looking (as the largest percentage of Tivo owners ever did with their boxes) could you barely make it out. The outrage! Wait, let me roll it back... darn overshot it. Call the FCC!!! OK, hit pause now. Write your Congressman!!! Yeah, wait, there is something that could be a nipple there... try and move it ahead one more frame. I can't believe they would air this on TV... my children will be scarred for life because they almost saw the nipple that I was trying to see by running the Tivo forward and back!!!

At the same time, little Dylan and Ashley can stay in the room for The Shield.

South Park has been seen by virtually every kid with cable in the country, whether their parents know it or not.
 
> > Considering that Canadian broadcasting rules aren't as
> > restrictive as the FCC's, more stations in the Great White
>
> > North take chances and push the envelope.
>
> Canadians don't pander to a minority of special interest
> groups that lose their mind everytime there is a positive
> portrayal of some group they don't like or a hint of sexual
> content.
>
> A larger percentage of the country goes hypocritical over
> things like the wardrobe malfunction that was the equivalent
> of Adriane Barbeau showing a nipple in the movie The Fog.
> Only if you paused your Tivo and went looking (as the
> largest percentage of Tivo owners ever did with their boxes)
> could you barely make it out. The outrage! Wait, let me
> roll it back... darn overshot it. Call the FCC!!! OK, hit
> pause now. Write your Congressman!!! Yeah, wait, there is
> something that could be a nipple there... try and move it
> ahead one more frame. I can't believe they would air this
> on TV... my children will be scarred for life because they
> almost saw the nipple that I was trying to see by running
> the Tivo forward and back!!!
>
> At the same time, little Dylan and Ashley can stay in the
> room for The Shield.
>
> South Park has been seen by virtually every kid with cable
> in the country, whether their parents know it or not.
>

I was 10 when I first saw it. And that was in 1997. It became EXTREMELY popular not long after.

Personally, I think South Park should be rated "TV 14" instead of "TV MA" on cable. There is a lot worse out there and from the looks of it the core audience is between the ages of 14 and 17

I would guess the new "Cleaned Up for broadcast TV" airings will be TV-PG or TV-14.
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