Chinese regulators suspend TV crime and spy dramas

[The Dragon Master]

China has ordered TV stations across the country not to air any detective shows, spy thrillers or dramas about time-travel for the next three months.



All have been ordered off-air with immediate effect.



An official at China's state TV regulator confirmed to the BBC that the verbal order had been made.



China's Communist Party is preparing to mark 90 years since its founding and the authorities want TV stations to air programmes praising the party instead.



The government wants China's one billion television viewers to tune in to a wholesome diet of patriotic propaganda that will glorify the party ahead of the anniversary on 1 July.

Rest of article and link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13308162

 

[Crusader]

They've banned anything to do with time travel as well.

 

[Corleone]

That's why I won't go to China. Censorship in China reminds me of how amazing freedom is.

 

[Jazzy]

You know what the regulators need to suspend and ban forever? Child Slave Labor. China accounts for the third largest number where child slave labor is concerned.

 

[Corleone]

China is an overpopulated wannabe dictatorship.