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My tirade against television continues.

Bizarrely ITV decided to show Beverly Hills cop at 3 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon. A film that contains at least 20 uses of the word fuck in the opening action sequence in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, you know it's either going to be cut to shreds or very badly over-dubbed. Yes, it was both, totally ruined. Admittedly it didn't help that every time the main theme came on I kept thinking of the crazy frog, which made me want to smash the tv.

So move onto 10 pm and ITV 2, they start showing Shaun of the Dead, and they even badly over-dub that. In the first few minutes Ed asks the guys in the pub if "he can get any of you cunts a drink", except that tonight they are now cocks not cunts. Why, it's well after the watershed, it's an obscure digital tv channel, what was the reason for cutting that word? BBC 3 had an entire documentary on the word and it's acceptance in modern society. Apparently there was a street in Oxford that was called Gropecunt street, which in the olde days was where the prostittues hung out, however in the 18th century they changed the name.

So why is it that cunt is fine on HBO in the States but not fine on ITV2? TV executives in this country have lost the plot, what happened to freedom of choice, it's becoming more of a nanny state with a load of loser sports teams.