Whatever your stance on BS and their pervcams etc, it's hard to argue against the whole operation coming across as cheap and tatty. From the curtain that could have been stolen from Dot Cotton's front room to the ad hoc bamboo like construction that's meant to tantalise viewers into calling but reminds me of a scene from a Vietnam POW film to the whiteboard with the girl's name written on with a marker pen. Just all screams of unprofessional, cheap and nasty tat.
I can envisage a producer with a tank top, Bobby Charlton comb over with as much hair as that guy from the Hamlet photo booth adverts years ago dunking custard creams in a mug of Bovril moaning indistinctly when he' s required to move from his deckchair in the studio to do a bit of work.
That's how the operation comes across to me anyway.
whoa check Daisy Dillon out, tasty!!
No more over the knee boots on daytime by the looks of it. Ashley told a caller today and a producer confirmed it, i'm not sure if this is just enforcing an ofcom rule of whether it's a BS only rule - sucks either way
^ I understood it had been a "rule" for a while but they hadn't been rigorously enforcing it. Certainly Danni Levy has been tucking the tops of her boots in for some time. It's something to do with it looking like fetish wear so I think it must be Ofcom related or at least BS running scared of Ofcom. I suspect someone has pushed it too far and Ofcom have had a word. In the same vein they told Danni a while ago that she had to change because she had her black leather corset on with a leather skirt and boots. She was told she could wear the boots with corset or with skirt but not both!
Indeed, having asked around, it's BS enforcing an ofcom rule. I'll wait and see what people are wearing next week!
How do Ofcom think above knee boots will corrupt the nation's youth?
If a girl wears leather or boots on bs it's "fetish wear" and corrupting but it's perfectly fine for most superhero movies to be given family friendly certificates when the characters are mostly wearing the same sort of thing in them?
(19-08-2017 07:13 )FanofCamilla Wrote: [ -> ]Indeed, having asked around, it's BS enforcing an ofcom rule.
I cannot see any such rule in Ofcom's broadcasting code.
Referring to "clothing of a sexual fetish, bondage or sadomasochistic nature" it's stated that such clothing is not forbidden by the code but "great care should be taken as to how these images are presented before the watershed".
I think, as SecretAgent suggested, it's more a case of Babestation being careful than the enforcement of an actual Ofcom rule.
^ I must admit: I have made variations of your argument on here several times but while technically correct the result is strictly Tomatoe, Tomatoe. As ever Ofcom's "great care" is a deliberately open to interpretation phrase meaning basically "we'll decide what we feel like on the day" depending on how fawning you have been about it after we whined.
SA's description of two garments in that style being okay whilst three arn't is exactly the kind of nonsense splitting of hairs you'd expect when an operator is put under such restrictions. Then its not surprising either that any hint of Ofcom turning an eye in their direction might mean any one garment is suddenly frowned upon.
All this playing safe has become what Ofcom now demand and expect; their rules are wtitten the way they are quite purposefully. And they will always get their way as the shows' overriding concern is always going to be, quite naturally, the bottom line. Ofcom depends on this too.
They still have camera angles on BS Daytime that show enough of the babe for you to be able to tell what a babe is wearing below the navel ??
