Strange "Bedford" fellows: WB censors its pilot; serves it uncut on the Web
After the FCC edict last week to let stand the largest-ever fine against broadcast TV stations, the New York Times offers a chilling profile of that decision’s progeny: The soon-to-be subsumed WB TV network has censored Tom Fontana‘s new pilot, “The Bedford Diaries.”
Among the cuts: a scene “that depicted two girls in a bar kissing on a dare and another of a girl unbuttoning her jeans.”
The result of this seems to be two fold: One, everything interesting, or at least prurient, will be online, or on cable beyond the grasp of the FCC, while everything milquetoast will remain on broadcast TV, which will be dead soon enough if Mr.
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