This really annoys me. Basically BBC Three (a channel I’ve railed against before, but Funland was quite good last night, and Stuart Murphy’s going, so who knows), has been found in breach of showing Pulp Fiction too soon after the watershed.
In the past the BBC has played the film from 9.45pm which is seemingly OK, yet starting it at 9.10pm isn’t. While there is a 9.00pm watershed, it seems to be a flexible affair that means you can’t actually start more edgy material right after 9.00pm. Kind of defeats the point of a watershed.
So if 9.10’s too early, but 9.45’s OK, when’s the cutoff? Is 9.20 too early? What about 9.30?