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.
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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.