I've been watching the TV show Lincoln Heights, which airs on ABC Family, and frankly I can't believe how it possibly made it on that channel. The show is about a black family which moves to Lincoln Heights in LA. The father is a cop and the mother is a nurse. The show revolves around the father and the cases that occur during his job, sometimes involving his family. One episode in particular seemed a little too extreme for the network that it airs on. The episode begins with the parents finding a baby in a dumpster wrapped in a trash bag. By the end, we find out that a 15 year old girl was raped by her father, gave birth to the baby in her house and her mother threw the baby in the trash to "get rid of the abomination". To me it seemed like this was a little too real for a network like ABC Family.
On another random note, Nip/Tuck showed full frontal female nudity on FX about two weeks ago. The only reason that it was allowed (I would assume) was that the girl had no nipples because they were surgically removed (I'm not going into the reasons why lol)
It seems the standards of censorship of old are starting to die out slowly but surely. Hell, network television usually uses every swear except f**k nowadays (which I'm sure won't be far away). Not that I'm complaining but I do find this phenomenon interesting (i.e. the changing censorship standards that we live by).
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I did think that part of Nip/Tuck was pretty interesting. I mean I guess it is acceptable to show a complete set of breasts with the proviso that the nipples arn't exposed. It would appear that the censorboard doesn't mind breasts but has a real aversion to the human nipple. I'll never understand their decisions. I don't think there is any real consistancy with their decisions. I think in 10 years it will all be moot anyway as you'll be able to do whatever you want. It seems like we are certainly headed in that direction with a full head of steam.
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