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NORMAL PEOPLE HAS continued to irk some viewers since first airing on 28 April, with RTÉ revealing it has received 51 informal complaints over sexual content depicted in the 12-part series.
While censorship is largely a thing of the past in Ireland and most other western countries, governments in parts of Asia and Russia continue to maintain strict censorship rules around what can and cannot be aired on television.
It got us thinking about some of the more memorable, and sometimes humorous, moments in recent television history which sparked controversy, debates, and even legislative changes.
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Despite the speculation at the time we now know nothing happened between Philip Schofield and holly Willoughby at ant and decs After party.
@Andy mc Laughlin: Off the record, on the QT, and very hush hush…
Stephen Fry’s depiction of God was absolutely perfect !!
@Chris Cantwell: Even paradise has rules.
@Chris Cantwell: and many’s the time have I quoted it to those who claim all the evil in the world is a result of the free will given to mankind by god. Looking impartially at scripture, the christian god is an evil entity, beyond doubt.
@Connoroconner: did yourself and Fry ever hear of Gods opponent? They call him the Devil.
@Tom Fitzgibbons: what ever way you look at it that god created his opponent. The other thing is that means the devil created the most complex systems in nature. All fungus, parasites, immune responses etc… the bug that eats a dead animal isn’t evil.
@Tom Fitzgibbons: yes and Gargamel is the Smurfs enemy. All fictitious good guys need an enemy. And you dudnt sound too Christian yourself there yesterday Tom, when you were slagging off the bereaved Filipino family’s fundraiser.
Lol. People are complaining about Normal People already?
I don’t think the episode when she goes to Sweden and hooks up with the photographer has aired over there yet, has it?
@Jonathan Nolan: it’s all just a clever marketing device.
Apparently I watch too much telly. Only missed one.
5 outa 10
‘A promoter of fornication’.
It’s like being back in Ireland of old when the Catholic Church pulled the strings of the Nation.
Apparently I watch too much telly. Only missed one.
@Siobhán Kirby: you can say that again
All the things that Stephen Fry mentioned were actually created by mankind and not by God.
@WreckDefier: Well if this ‘God’ character exists and is supposedly omnipotent maybe he/she should do something about it?
@WreckDefier: blindness in children was invented by mankind?
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