Top Gear Censored
Just started the Best of Top Gear video from tonight’s BBC2 (I kinda like the Flash-based iPlayer - it works), and it took me a few seconds to figure out what all the censoring was about.
That’s the BBC’s editing. It must be the whole thing about smoking on-screen after the July 1 smoking ban … either somebody’s come down on them like a ton of bricks, or somebody has a sense of humour, or both. Hehe. Anyway, was this on the broadcast edition or just the iPlayer edition?
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
It was on the broadcast edition as well, been watching it back on my DVR
January 13th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
It was on the broadcast edition as well. Took me a while to work out what was going on - at first it looked like a MPEG decoding glitch, but then I remembered my TV was an old analogue one.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I noticed this too. It wasnt on the original episode so I am guessing they had complaints.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
In the original episode of this, James May was actually smoking a Porsche pipe (which was featured in the news). However, as their was a recent/forthcoming smoking ban which prevented people from smoking it a public place. This is what am sure was censored and why it was censored.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The ban was already in place when the episode was originally filmed and they did get into trouble at the time