Wednesday, August 10, 2005

You can't kill a cat

The United States has some strange taboos in television - 'The Guardian' reports that a new show [Weeds]based in American suburbia deals with a mother who deals in marijuana to sustain her lifestyle, after her husband drops dead whilst out jogging. One scenario had her shooting a cat - but that isn't allowed - so it was cut. Hey, you can show drug dealing on TV, but you can't be cruel to animals! Weeds, according to the controller of Sky One, "feels like a pretty accurate satire on sterile suburban life, the shiny surface and the interesting things going on below. We will see...

1 Comments:

At 10:50 pm, Blogger Patrick said...

Of course people shouldn't forget that Weeds started off in the US with a lead in from the last ever episode of Queer as Folk so you'd assume that they're going to be pretty direct in what they depict on the show. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if they released this news of the lack of cat-shooting as a publicity tit-bit... or perhaps I'm being far too cynical.

 

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