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Originally Posted by Pete  Lot's of bbfc censored films have been shown uncut on TV. Hell, the Horror Channel even shown the Uncut version of Bloodsucking Freaks, and that has never been submitted to the BBFC. |
According to Ofcom the only BBFC certified films that are banned from being shown are R18 even to subsciption channels.
Interestingly this seems to apply to advertising web sites - in 2008 red hot tv advertised 2 web sites (the ads themselves where within guidelines but the sites showed R18 material after a warning screen) they were fined £25,000 and £27,500 respectively.
As far as the non sex movies are concerned :
No film refused classification by BBFC can be broadcast unless it has subsequently been passed by BBFC or BBFC confirms it would not be rejected according to current standards.
No film cut as a condition of classification by BBFC can be transmitted in a version that include cut material unless :
the BBFC confirm that it was cut to obtain a lower category or that the film would not be subject to compulsory cuts under current standards.
So either those films can now be resubmitted uncut and pass - or the broadcasters got lucky they never got complaints
