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Originally Posted by dustdevil  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  |
Compulsory cuts for horsefalls seems to be a BBFC favourite these days but tv screenings of old movies where this was a standard practice are usually uncut.
With Deep Red getting through uncut I wonder whether some comments from James Cameron might enable a UK premier for an uncut release of The Abyss