In honour of boundary-breaking Spartacus, this week’s question asks you, the gentle reader:
What’s acceptable TV viewing?
Is graphic violence okay? Full-frontal nudity of either gender? Sex? What kinds of sex? Swearing? Any particular words verboten? Should there be different rules for different times or different channels? Does sex, violence and bad language devalue the human soul? Is it demeaning to women – or men? Or should anything go since that’s what life’s like?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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