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Posted Wednesday 5/06/20 at 3:50AM EDT
Turkish-American Designated Survivor actor is "disappointed" Netflix pulled his episode in Turkey
Troy Caylak, who played the villainous fictional Turkish President Faith Fatih Turan in a 2018 ABC episode of Designated Survivor,...
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Netflix pulls a Designated Survivor episode in Turkey in response to the government's demand
The streaming service said it complied with Turkey's censor board demand that a Season 2 episode of Designated Survivor be...
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Posted Wednesday 4/15/20 at 1:26PM EDT
ESPN will show two versions of Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance: One that's family friendly and one with profanity
The uncensored version of the 10-part documentary will air on ESPN, while the censored version with bleeps and dropped audio...
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Posted Friday 2/07/20 at 1:31PM EST
Netflix reveals the shows and movies it pulled in response to the demands of foreign governments
The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj made headlines last year when Netflix complied with a Saudi Arabian government request to...
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Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 10:36PM EST
CBS censors Trump's "bullsh*t" line on The Late Show after airing it uncensored on live TV
Stephen Colbert played the "It was all bullsh*t" line on Thursday's Late Show that the president uttered during his post-impeachment...
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Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 3:36PM EST
President Trump uses profanity in post-impeachment TV address, calling investigations "all bullsh*t"
"It was all bullsh*t," the president said in a sprawling and teleprompter-free address carried on live TV, referring specifically to...
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Posted Thursday 1/09/20 at 5:44PM EST
Pamela Adlon doesn't know if her upcoming Better Things C-word scene will make it past FX censors
In a Season 4 scene, Adlon's character and her daughters have a fight where they call each other the C-word.
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Netflix says it speaks truth to power after its CEO said "we’re not in the truth to power business"
Last week, CEO Reed Hastings defended Netflix's decision to pull Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act from Saudi Arabia, saying: “We’re not...
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Posted Wednesday 11/06/19 at 7:51PM EST
Netflix CEO defends bowing to Saudi Arabia in pulling Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act: "We're not trying to do truth to power"
“We’re not in the news business, we’re not trying to do truth to power.
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Posted Saturday 6/15/19 at 2:59AM EDT
How The Good Fight toned down its sex scenes and eliminated profanity for broadcast on CBS
Co-creator Robert King says he was given three to four days to edit each episode, and they were done via...
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Posted Tuesday 5/28/19 at 4:39PM EDT
The View censors Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar during their anti-Trump screeds
The audio on this morning's show cut out four times while Goldberg talked Trump.
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The Good Fight creators threatened to quit after CBS censored their "Banned in China" musical short
Robert and Michelle King were taken aback when viewers treated their placard reading "CBS HAS CENSORED THIS CONTENT" on last...
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Posted Sunday 5/05/19 at 8:29PM EDT
CBS All Access did indeed censor last week's The Good Fight epsiode
The message “CBS HAS CENSORED THIS CONTENT" appeared before The Good Fight aired its weekly Schoolhouse Rock!-esque animated short during...
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Posted Monday 3/04/19 at 7:57PM EST
Will Forte: "Filthy" MacGruber TV series is being shopped to networks that will let us use the F-word
The former Last Man on Earth star isn't inclined to return to network TV with his MacGyver parody series.
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Posted Saturday 2/23/19 at 2:36AM EST
Why can't network late-night TV shows use profanity?
Stephen Colbert encountered the problem with network censors when he couldn't utter the title "Schitt's Creek" when co-creator and star...
