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?
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