BBC bans Torchwood gay sex scene that will be shown in the US

[Brazen]

Mart, you'll love this one Widely covered in the Pink Press and the Daily Wail, but I'll go with the Sun version just for the alliterative headline:

Barrowman bonk with a barman is banned by Beeb

ONE of the most sexually explicit scenes ever filmed for a TV drama has been torched - from Torchwood.

Racy bisexual Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman has a gay romp with a barman.

The scene - which includes shots of Jack's naked bum - was filmed for the third episode of the sci-fi hit and would have gone out just 20 minutes after the 9pm watershed.

It has already been shown on US cable channel Starz, which co-funded the drama. But shocked Beeb bosses have cut it from the BBC1 version, fearing an avalanche of complaints from viewers.

A veteran telly insider described it as one of the most sexually explicit TV sex scenes they had seen - and said they were "staggered" it could air in a drama that has so many young fans.

The source said: "It wasn't that it was a gay scene that worried people, but just the fact it was such an explicit sex scene, full stop.

"You can get away with scenes like that on American cable channels, but you can't on primetime BBC1.

"Even though the show airs after the watershed, it has a lot of young fans who would have been shocked at the graphic nature of the sex."

Last night, the BBC confirmed the scene had been axed, along with a gruesome scene later in the series.

A spokeswoman said: "The UK and US versions of Torchwood are slightly different.

"However these differences do not change the story in any way and the strong storylines are first and foremost to the series."

The insider told TV Biz: "Cutting these scenes doesn't affect the story and they are very minimal changes.

"It was decided to cut them as the BBC and Starz have very different audiences."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3701858/John-Barrowman-bonk-with-a-barman-is-banned-by-the-BBC.html

[Josquius]

"It was decided to cut them as the BBC and Starz have very different audiences."

Passive aggression FTW!

[Grey Fox]

Young audience are never shocked by sex scenes. It's the adults that get shocked.

[Admiral Yi]

Did British version of Queer as Folk Music not have a sodomize-the-teen scene?

[MadImmortalMan]

Prude Euros!!!!!111

[Brazen]

Did British version of Queer as Folk Music not have a sodomize-the-teen scene?

Queer As Folk is a Channel 4 production (i.e. not funded by the viewing public like the BBC) as is Shameless which has at least one graphic naked gay or straight sex scene every week.

They may also be shown at a later watershed - after 10 rather than 9, but I'd need to double-check that.

[mongers]

I'm shocked that a ailing tv show should include a scene that they knew would most likely have to be 'censored' and would then have to deal with a wave of protest/grandstanding/publicity.

[grumbler]

[marti]This underlines your schizophrenic views about sex and violence [/marti]

[Razgovory]

I'm shocked that a ailing tv show should include a scene that they knew would most likely have to be 'censored' and would then have to deal with a wave of protest/grandstanding/publicity.

Is it ailing?  I just never found it very good.

[Eddie Teach]

It reminds me of Primeval. But dinosaurs > slutty bisexual aliens, so I stuck that one out three seasons longer.

[Martinus]

Outrageous!

[Viking]

BTW Harkness is not a slutty  bisexual alien, he is a slutty bisexual 51st century time travelling human con-man

[Eddie Teach]

He's also the Face of Bo, which is pretty clearly not human any longer. And that process seems to have started before he joined Torchwood.

[Viking]

He's also the Face of Bo, which is pretty clearly not human any longer. And that process seems to have started before he joined Torchwood.

SPOILERZZZZZ!!!!!1o1111111oneoneoneoeneo

[Eddie Teach]

You were the one who brought up outside(to Torchwood only viewers) info first.