Why did they edit Crocodile Dundee???

JethroUK

Why did they edit Crocodile Dundee for TV and never show unedited version, ever!

I hate to hear serious swearing but cant understand how/why TV broadcasters edit out "!!!!!!" (destroying several real funny cracks in Corcodile Dundee)

YET 20 minutes later (9 o'clock) they subject me to a torrent of f's and now c's

Cant broadcasting companies afford just one person with ha'pth of common sense (and a lot of empathy) to consider their own viewing public to make sure they entertain without causing offence

without some 3rd party governing body dictating to them (like a child) what/when they can/cant broadcast and they *STILL* dont understand the message - hence they unleash what can only be described as a barrage of swearing ON THE STROKE OF 9

and Ive never seen 'the funny' version of Crocodile Dundee since watching at the pictures

It's pathetic!

StrongWork

Tbh, I wouldn't expect swearing on shows before 9pm, hence the watershed. After that, knock yourself out.

Easier to edit than have to reply to complaints that there was swearing pre-watershed imo.

Even Back to the Future gets edited now during its continuous play loops on ITV2.

broonbear

Have to laugh at the watershed, i'm sure it was brought in to show adult themes after 9pm, but we've more under age single mums than most countries and when you pass most primary schools there is alot of '' industrial language '' being used so who's being protected from the watershed. From a personal point the swearing in programmes doesn't bother me one way or another , but i do agree with your point on Crocodile Dundee

JulieElizabeth

Aye - you never get to see the cocaine scene either

vyle

I once saw C5 broadcasting Stand by Me at lunchtime. I don't know why they bothered.

Abbafan1972

I can't really remember Crocodile Dundee that well as I've only seen it a couple of times.

One of my favourite Whoopie Goldberg films - Jumpin' Jack Flash, I used to have a TV version of it on video tape and was shocked at how much of the dialogue had been edited in that, didn't realise until a few years later I bought the DVD! The scene where she's in the police station all wet and her colleague says she's got Tourette syndrome, but the edited dialogue is really silly!

Grease - The condom scene at the drive in is usually cut out and Grease'd Lighting is usually edited as John Travolta says "!!!!!!" in that!

I very rarely watch "TV" versions of films anymore for this very reason!

bobobins

You just know we are sleepwalking into a police state when not even Crocodile Dundee can swear before 9pm.

ThumbRemote

broonbear wrote: »

Have to laugh at the watershed, i'm sure it was brought in to show adult themes after 9pm, but we've more under age single mums than most countries and when you pass most primary schools there is alot of '' industrial language '' being used so who's being protected from the watershed. From a personal point the swearing in programmes doesn't bother me one way or another , but i do agree with your point on Crocodile Dundee

Intriguing logic you seem to use here:
Statement 1: We have lots of single mums
Statement 2: Some mums swear outside primary schools
Conclusion: There is no need for a watershed

I'm sure there are plenty good parents who would prefer their children to watch TV without swearing in. Just because they may hear swearing elsewhere doesn't mean the watershed isn't worthwhile.

dontone

Nothing beats that time last year where ITV4 showed Carry On Camping and they removed the most famous bit of all the Carry On's where Barbara Windor's bra flies off, and you get a nanosecond glimpse of her norks.
This was at 10pm as well.
ITV have shown that film at 2.30/3pm lots of times and it's been uncut. Yet they are quite happy to show violent stuff after 9pm (and sometimes before) and yet postcard humour might offend somebody more.
The mind boggles.

SpammyTheSpammer

Films have to be trimmed to fit into the available time.

A commercial break lasts anything from 2 - 5 minutes (dependent upon demand). So in each hour of film viewing, you have to remove anything from 6-15 minutes.

In addition, TV companies like to tell you what you could be watching after you have watched the program that you are actually watcing, this accounts for another minute or two

Example, RAMBO shown on Ch5 on Sat 3rd.

• Running time (IMDB) of 99 minutes.
• Started at 10:00
• next program on at 11:45.
• Total on air time of 60+45 minutes, total of 105 minutes
• 7 breaks so minimum of 14 minutes, maximum of 35 minutes

Even with the MINIMUM estimates, 8 minutes must have been cut . With 5 minute breaks, most probable for a popular film like this with advertising space in demand, film had been cut by 20 minutes!


EXAMPLE 2

Crocodile Dundee II ITV, 9.45pm - 11.00pm; 11.10pm - 12.00am.

• On air time 75+50 minutes, Total of 125 minutes on screen
• There were 9 ad breaks in this meaning 18-45 minutes have to be removed
• IMDB states running time of 111 minutes
• So, actual film on screen during that time can be anything from 107 minutes down to 80 (!)
• Minimum film removal time of 4 minutes, maximum up to 45 minutes

See why films have to be cut? To Fit Into The Available Space

SpammyTheSpammer

From wikipedia: -

"On the commercial channels, the amount of airtime allowed by the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom for advertising is an overall average of 7 minutes per hour, with limits of 12 minutes for any particular clock hour (8 minutes per hour between 6pm and 11pm)."

Based on this, the cuts would be a minimum of 8 minutes for each hour of film with a possible maximum 12 minutes for an hour - go figure how much of those films original content is left after this commercial excission.