Series 9 DVD Release

[Tea Lady]

(06-03-2011 11:43 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  Wow! What a great line! I am sorry they cut it. I love the idea. Life starts messy people!

Is there any indication as to who is (are?) "they"? The producers? TPTB at the BBC? My guess? It was cut either because it wasn't decided that it just wasn't right in that moment or because they thought it was a bit too graphic an image. Keeping it would have made the image of Ruth in 9.7 mean oh so much more!

Series 9 commentaries Spoiler: show

I hope for the later, but I would not at all surprised if TPTB think that viewers can tolerate brains and gore being splattered all over someones face but not the image of childbirth as a metaphor.

Series 9 commentaries Spoiler: show

I think you are right A Cousin. I think anything connected to children is just not allowed. In the 9.7 commentary, the writers were not happy that the BBC cut the scene where Lucas stabs Vaughn. In the finished version they gave to the BBC, there were images of children playing cut into the scene where Vaughn has the knife in his leg and Lucas is holding his hand over his mouth. Andrew Woodhead said that this was a complete no no. The BBC would not allow violence linked in with images of children. NW joked that children should be in bed at that time of night. They had to change the scene.

I do wonder though, whether this is for all BBC programmes or just for Spooks which does have a a large amount of younger viewers, even though it is shown after 9pm.