for the US peeps.

[burntcopper]

watching Southland ep 4 (aka the non-Cooper one, all detectives, and it's relatively boring - not to mention, are all the detectives messed up or stupid? beat cops - sure, a couple are idiots, but they're not constantly losing their shit every two minutes *on the job*. So sue me, emotional fuckups get boring if there's nothing to balance them out, and competency is hot.)

anyway. what time is Southland aired? I thought it was 9 or 10, so can someone tell me why all the swearing is bleeped out? Does NBC have different rules from the channels that air The shield? Not to mention, inconsistent much? pretty sure Kings had swearing, and it had Southland's airing slot.

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[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Southland vs. Kings, but The Shield was on HBO -- as in, premium cable, where they can get away with much more -- whereas Kings was on NBC, basic network tv.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

that's what's confusing me. Southland is NBC's mid-season replacement for Kings when Kings got consigned to Saturday death-slot. Kings didn't have its swearing bleeped out like Southland did.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Southland on the NBC website, and the swearing's bleeped out there, too. My working assumption is that bleeping out the swearing has to do with the format of the show -- like, very little music, sort of a jerky camera, "documentary" style -- like it's a tv documentary instead of a straight-up cop drama tv show.

Granted, I could just be pulling this out of thin air, but that's my idea.