The least of their problems
According to the New York Post, Japanese broadcasters have decided not to run the last season of “24” television shows because one of the terrorists in that season dies of radiation poisoning;
“With the many victims of the current disaster in Japan, and ongoing concerns about radiation leaks from the nuclear power station, TV Tokyo has decided not to show the planned final season and show season five instead,” the network said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
I understand the need to be sensitive, but I think the Japanese should spend more time concentrating on reality than some TV show.
Category: Society
This sort of reminds me of all the handwringing about the “war-weary” American public circa 2005-2007, while the vast majority only experienced the war via their TVs.
Reminds me of how over 40 movies were either canceled, edited, and or delayed in their release because of the events on Sept. 2011.
Out television programing changed radicaly for about a month or so as well with some networks suspending their programing entirely.
Yup Jacobite. The one I remember was that movie with Arnold about the terrorist that kills his wife from a bomb in L.A. Release date was changed or something like that.
The last time I checked, every electronic device I own has an “OFF” button. No one else determines what I watch, I don’t answer a phone just because it rings, and the junk box works real well for email senders I don’t recognize.
How did fictional characters become so important to us that what happens to them hurts us??
Amen Pinto Nag.
The movie based on Dave Barry’s first novel, “Big Trouble” was delayed for (if I recall correctly) almost a year because of the bomb-on-a-plane plot; it was supposed to be released in September or October that year, I think.
Weirdly, the X-Files spinoff show The Lone Gunmen debuted that spring with a pilot episode involving a remote-controlled jetliner flying into the WTC.
9/11 wasn’t the first time something like that was done. Dr. Strangelove was originally scheduled for release right after the JFK assassination, but was pushed back until January 1964.
Also, when Slim Pickens (Major Kong) is going through the contents of the survival kit, the final edition of the movie has him saying, “A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.” Look at his lips and you’ll see it was dubbed over, because in the original version he says, “Dallas.”
They also held up the release of that POS “Sum Of All Fears”, but they could have held up release for eternity on that one. Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan – they might as well cast Pee Wee Herman for the role.
Agreed Jonn……