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Smits and TV3 Network Services Ltd - 2001-085
2001-085

ComplaintLast Dance – movie – offensive language – "is she sucking your cock?" – "cock sucking bitch" FindingsStandard G2 – context – AO programme – AO time – warning – no uphold This headnote does not form part of the decision. Summary The movie Last Dance was broadcast on TV3 at 9. 30pm on Thursday, 15 March 2001. Last Dance is a movie about a government official who tries to save a woman on death row from execution. Philip Smits complained to the broadcaster, TV3 Network Services Ltd, that a scene during which one character asks another "is she sucking your cock?" and the woman on death row is referred to as a "cock sucking bitch" contained language which was unacceptable for broadcast....