Monday, October 18, 2010

WHAT HATH THE FCC WROUGHT? At least here in New York, I've lately been getting bombarded by ads reminding us that our local CW affiliate is airing syndicated repeats of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage in late night slots. I haven't watched, but I assume that both have been cut to meet non-pay-cable standards, removing profanity, nudity, drug use, etc., as well as to fit a commercial-sponsored timeslot. For Curb, it's easy to see how you do it. It's an adult show, to be sure, but most of that is in the easily redubbable language (though it's tough to cut down stuff to fit a network timeslot and leave the complicated plots intact). With Entourage, on the other hand, it seems to have a hard enough time finding a half hour of content even with gratuitous nudity, sex, and profanity. You cut all that out, and you're left with, what, 15 minutes of usable content? There's little enough reason to watch pay cable Entourage--is there any reason at all to watch a sanitized version?
Posted by Matt at 2:41 PM

10 comments:

  1. Jake3:03 PM

    I think it would be worth watching one or two episodes just to see how amusing the redubs of Ari's lines are.  Similar to how the characters in Fargo on non-premium cable say things like, "No frozen way!" and "Listen to this foolish guy!" and Sharon Stone's iconic line in Casino:  "Freak you, Sam Rothstein!  Freak you!"

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  2. Adam3:25 PM

    It's like that joke about how the edited-for-broadcast Sex and the City is about Carrie and her two friends Charlotte and Miranda.

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  3. christy in nyc3:27 PM

    I've also been seeing ads for WEEDS on TVGuide Network. Maybe not as much explicit sex and nudity as Entourage, but...kind of a lot of explicit sex and nudity.

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  4. Matt3:27 PM

    Honestly, with the exception of the "Samantha gets cancer" plotline, which was nicely done, that would be a far less annoying and generally much better show.

    I'm just waiting for them to attempt to sell True Blood into syndication in a few years.

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  5. Russ3:35 PM

    Nice tagline, Matt. 

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  6. patricia4:07 PM

    Or the iconic:  "I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!"

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  7. Lindy4:56 PM

    Or my personal favorite:
    "This is what happens Larry, when you FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!"

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  8. Joseph J. Finn5:20 PM

    My personal favorite is the TV edit of Breakfast Club, with such gems as "Flip you, Claire!  Flip you!" and "C'mon, sporto, level with me.  Do you slip her some hot loving affection?"

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  9. J. Bowman1:36 PM

    Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight, if you stuck a lump a coal up his fist, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.

    We can't take your car. Mr. Rooney would never believe Sloan's dad drives that piece of tin.
    It's not a piece of tin.
    It is a piece of tin. I don't even have a piece of tin to not take. I have to be jealous of yours.

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  10. Jake10:31 PM

    I might be too late for anyone to see this, but this link I just found is directly on point:

    http://tv.gawker.com/5667748/the-most-ridiculous-edited+for+tv-movie-lines

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