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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...
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Hasan Minhaj slams Netflix's Saudi Arabia censorship: "It’s about the precedent"
“This isn’t about just censoring one episode of a TV show.
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Report: Netflix proposed scrapping Hasan Minhaj's "Saudi Arabia" Patriot Act episode before taping
Before recently pulling Minhaj's Oct.
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Posted Thursday 1/03/19 at 7:10PM EST
Netflix's decision to pull a Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj in Saudi Arabia sets a bad precedent
"A bit like the Saudi regime itself, the Netflix decision smacks of giving priority to money over the immorality of...
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Posted Thursday 1/03/19 at 5:07AM EST
Did Netflix go about pulling Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act episode from Saudi Arabia the best way it could?
Hasan Minhaj seemed more amused than victimized when he tweeted that the whole kerfuffle of Saudi Arabia forcing Netflix to...
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Netflix blocks Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj episode in Saudi Arabia after legal threat
Netflix defended its decision last week to pull the Oct.
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South Park uses the C-word uncensored for the first time
South Park has used the C-word in past episodes, but Comedy Central always bleeped the vulgar word.
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Posted Thursday 8/23/18 at 7:21AM EDT
Why is Bachelor in Paradise blurring so many female butts?
The ABC reality show is even blurring the butts this season of women who are wearing full-coverage swimsuit bottoms.
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Posted Friday 6/29/18 at 5:15PM EDT
Ed Asner, who famously played newspaper editor Lou Grant, slams Marco Rubio's complaint over F-word use in Annapolis shooting coverage
"The fact that people are seriously questioning the use of a word after watching 5 colleagues die in extreme violence...
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Posted Friday 6/29/18 at 1:21PM EDT
Marco Rubio expresses outrage that CNN aired a pre-taped uncensored F-word as part of its newspaper shooting coverage
"Sign of our times.
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Posted Thursday 6/28/18 at 10:16PM EDT
David Simon lashes out at President Trump while tweeting that two friends are "unaccounted for" in Capital Gazette newspaper shooting
The Wire creator was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun prior to working in television.
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Posted Tuesday 6/26/18 at 1:55PM EDT
HBO shows are still available in China, but HBO.com and Last Week Tonight are blocked
Following John Oliver's mockery of President Xi Jinping and his Chinese censorship, HBO's website and Oliver's show were banned, as...
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Posted Monday 6/25/18 at 6:21AM EDT
HBO is now blocked in China following John Oliver's segment on Chinese censorship
All mentions of Oliver's name were removed in the wake of Last Week Tonight's segment that mocked Chinese President Xi...
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John Oliver is now censored in China after mocking Chinese censorship
On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, Oliver spent 20 minutes delving into Chinese censorship, even bringing up the censorship of Winnie...
