Sherlock - Criticised over raunchy pre-watershed scenes
4 Jan 2012
SherlockThe BBC has been criticised by family viewers after a nude dominatrix appeared in the hit detective drama Sherlock this weekend before the 9pm watershed.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the modern-day adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 Sherlock Holmes short story A Scandal in Belgravia aired on New Year's Day.
The episode feature actress Laura Pulver wearing just diamond earrings and high heels at one point as she played dominatrix Irene Adler.
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Moral: 'Sherlock' nude scenes won't be removed in repeat, says BBC (also DS)
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I'm sure worse things have happened.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, nothing full frontal went on, if it did I missed it. But as usual BBC viewers are being their usual complaining selves, pathetic. x.x
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those same "family viewers" were ok with people (including innocent landladies) being abducted at gunpoint, or would have been okay with a violent killing if it that type of killer Sherlock was chasing in the episode... The answer of course is yes.
ReplyDeleteThey are not worried about their kids seeing adult themes, just implied nudity and implied sexual situations. Never mind the mass murders or gaping head wounds. I guess they are acceptable family viewing?
Nothing irks me more than hypocritical family viewers that complain about "sex" (even when there was no sex or nudity), but give violence a pass. If your child is too young to see implied nudity they are too young to see violence and blood and should not be watching anyway!
Parents (like those noted in the article) need to stop passing their personal issues and insecurities with sex onto their children and grow up themselves.
I think they were more worried that she was a strong-minded female who stood tall and nude, than the typical coy and innocent female nude trying to hide her nakedness away from the world.
ReplyDeleteThe so called "nude" scenes were carefully shot and there was only a hint of S&M, the wowser brigade strikes again.
ReplyDeleteOh, boo hoo. It's Claudine from True Blood in her birthday suit. I approve.
ReplyDeletedramatics!
ReplyDeleteIt's not like they showed anything. They made sure of that.
Nudity is a part of life, get over it.
ReplyDeleteum - what's a watershed?
ReplyDeleteBasically a time before which adult themes should not be shown in the UK
ReplyDeleteBefore 9pm, ie before you send your kids to bed.
ReplyDeleteIn that episode, Sherlock Holmes - one of the most recognizable characters in the history of fiction; the hero of the piece - tortures a guy and throws him out of a window, for no reason other than revenge.
ReplyDeleteImplied nudity is what they have a problem with? I mean, I don't really have a problem with any of it, but man....
Good for the BBC sticking to there guns!
ReplyDeleteit was terrible! i think i saw some shoulder. in my day the producer would have been beheaded for such a thing!
ReplyDeleteHere,Here! If it is shown early maybe they could move it up an hour,but really kids don't go to bed at 8 anymore,half the time they are still out at 9,10 at night on school nights.Next they will probably boycott demanding it being taken off the air!
ReplyDeleteYou left me a message early today and when i clicked on it it sent me to the activity thingy in disqus,when i started looking for it,it became the needle in the hay sack. Sorry!
Not so much as one proper buttock anywhere in the episode, and the uproar begins all the same.
ReplyDeleteI'll grant I wouldn't care to answer a little kid asking, "Mommy, what's a dominatrix?," but nudity there was not. As others have written, a child old enough for themes of murder, brutality, and terrorism can handle _implied_ nudity!
There something mildly comforting in knowing that there is a small, loud, extremely annoying minority complaining about what's seen on television in the UK as well as here in the US.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same types of rules. 8pm (7pm central :-) is kid hour. You can kill...but you can't show the violence. Just an actor laying on the floor. No blood. I don't even think you can show injuries. By 9pm your kids are supposed to be in bed. Of course here in America everyone is insanely freaked out over the human body.
"The episode feature actress Laura Pulver wearing just diamond earrings and high heels at one point as she played dominatrix Irene Adler."
ReplyDeleteThat's not fair, I'm pretty sure she was wearing a ring too.
Sign of how distorted our perception of sex and violence is.
ReplyDeleteThey're as hypocritical as the US parents council folks. Violence and gore: okay. Nudity: absolutely shameful.
ReplyDeleteLike with most stories about complaints about UK TV you often find out people only complain after reading it in papers like the Daily Mail and half the time they hadn't even watched the episode in question.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I can not see what people were getting worked up about.
ReplyDeleteSo it's Ok that Sherlock throws a guy out a window but not to see a woman naked?
ReplyDeleteOh no. They are much, much worse.
ReplyDeleteHere, the PTC issues a release that the press openly mocks while reporting and we all move on. There, the trades seem to take the whiny side and it becomes a week long scanadal.
OMG How dare they..... its not like they dont have MTV where you can see all this things..
ReplyDeleteIf you look it's all come from the Daily Mail...they have a running campaign to slur the BBC as often as they can. Over here we take what they print as news with a pinch of salt, it's just another Murdock rag XD
ReplyDeleteThere's several afaik, certain themes (sex, violence, swearing) can only be shown after a certain times on the main channels.
ReplyDeleteExactly, the Daily Fail have done it again. What they really mean is that ;the BBC aren't on our political side therefore we shall smear them whenever we have a chance' :(
ReplyDeleteIndeed! It has happened so many times now that good on the BBC for sticking to their guns over this one.
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