What?

[karadinart]

Completely confusing article in the Washington Post regarding the airing of Scandal in Belgravia in the UK, Masterpiece Mystery Producer Rebecca Eton announces 'Sherlock doesn't

take his clothes off'

Which Scandal did she watch????

It's so hilarious that everyone's talking about this ep on this side of the water without bothering to SEE it first. They don't have to see the entire episode even, everything shown was shown in public previews. And everyone's talking about Lara's nudity, but no mention of Benedict's delectable cleavage.

What is this idea that if it appears on PBS that it's going to be censored? It's nighttime viewing - *but I have inferred that it will be since it will less than 90 min running time* which is quite a shame as that flash of skin from Benedict includes one of the best scenes of John, Sherlock and Mycroft interaction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/winter-tv-press-tour-2012-masterpiece-execs-bask-in-successful-year-and-of-course-discuss-that-sherlock-nude-scene/2

Comments

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

He doesn't even get dressed up until a certain point!.......unwrapped is probably a better term than "undressed"

[karadin.livejournal.com]

The whole WP article is more of a lack of information, geez, I can blog better than that.

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

It's so bad the page has been deleted! That's why I didn't comment on the article itself.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

huh, waddya know.

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

exactly........

[karadin.livejournal.com]

And now someone is reporting that Benedict will be back for Season 3 of Sherlock, because Rebecca Eaton was saying 'he will' but really, the only people who can give the definitive yes are Steven, Mark and Sue.

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

and Ben might just move on to other stuff or have a schedule conflict that puts things off for years at a time. Speculation so often leads to disappointment or annoyance for the actors/writers and then the fandom splits and gets pissy, hates the press, looks for scapegoats etc and so it goes on.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Well, these days anyone can have a blog and anyone can report 'news' (case in point self) but as I want to be a trusted news source, I wait before posting, rather not have egg on my face.

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

Even trusted news sources make big mistakes, even at the BBC breaking stories are silently removed just after I email someone and then they say "that story isn't there". I dunno, as always I'll just follow Mark's twitter since Moffat is often so indecisive.

[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

As an American I can verify that PBS does edit all BBC shows for language, nudity and sex. There were several integral scenes in the first series of of Sherlock that I did not see until I bypassed PBS and sent straight to the Brits to see the BBC version (of course, none of these scenes had anything to do with nudity or sex). PBS has that awful habit of tearing things out of every show so their "hosts" can natter on as they introduce each episode.

So when Sherlock does air over here, in May sometime, I had no doubt it would be strongly edited. There are several scenes where John swears I expect to be edited as well as the nudity. As more and more people are sharing these shows more Americans are discovering we have not been seeing these BBC productions in their entirety and we do not like this at all. PBS is very concerned that we will bypass them and go straight to Brit sources for the things we want to see.

They should be concerned. The popularity of "Sherlock" is unusual for PBS. To that extent they are quite concerned American's will be turning straight to our Brit friends to see the show in a timely manner as well as to make sure we see ALL of the show. PBS is loosing it's audience for this show en mass so they dearly want to keep as quiet as possible any idea that it might be edited for the USA.

When "The Last Enemy" was shown on PBS all of Benedict's nudity was edited out, and the love scenes were truncated. It was not until I got a download of it from a Brit source I saw the entire series, including several smaller key scenes that were removed.

PBS likes to present itself as very liberal in their thinking which is fine with me but still do not allow the liberality that Brits allow.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I just .... why would they cut the spinning scene in the Blind Banker? I saw Sherlock on DVD, so I never saw the truncated versions.

Yep, of all my friends who are over here and love SHERLOCK, none of us are gonna wait till May, and we are getting the DVDs, it's really an absurd loss for PBS.

[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

They cut the spinning scene to allow time for the PBS "Host" to natter on about the show we are about to see. PBS did not see that scene as important.

It was not until I started seeing pictures on the Net that I realized there were scenes missing when I did watch Sherlock for the first time on PBS.

Feh.

They also cut out the cabbie's explanation that he is doing the killings to make money for his children. All out.

PBS decides what is, or is not important to the storyline.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I want to support PBS, but I'll be getting my Brit TV via DVDs