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Originally Posted by KarlMalone
It depends. On premium pay-cable - HBO, Showtime, Cinemax - there is nudity. The FCC cannot limit them. Shows like Californication, The Tudors, Sex in the City, The Sopranos - all had lots of nudity and "profane" language.
On network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN), there is pretty much no nudity. You will see a bare bum here or there, but its a big deal if they show a breast (you may have heard how everyone freaked out about the Janet Jackson bare breast at the Super Bowl).
On basic pay cable (channels like E!, MTV, Comedy Central), nudity is a bit more relaxed than on network TV - they may show naked women, but the naughty bits will be blurred out or blocked out, but still no uncensored nudity.
Movies are usually changed to edit out nudity and bad language, which can make some movies laughably awful. Try watching "Goodfellas" sometime where gangsters say "freak you, you mother hugger!" Its hilarious.
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Whats "network TV"- is that the TV thats broadcast free to everyone?
In the UK, we don't get free TV. We need to pay a licence to own a TV, which funds BBC. There are also free channels, ITV (which is channel 3) Channel 4 and Channel 5.
From the mid 80s (I think,) there was also Satillitte TV- dish was needed, but some channels were free, others were pay channels. Then there came many more free channels with digital.
I think the rules for nudity are the same for all- after the 9pm "watershed" it's OK (within limits) , same with f words etc.
there are pay "adult" channels, but for years what they could show was just the same as any other channel (no erections, labia etc) , but it has been changed a little (but not greatly) in recent years.
You can't show pornos on non-adult TV, but can have the same "level" of nudity.