Why has AMC stopped censoring the use of the f-word as seen this season in Better Call Saul?
Better Call Saul has had 2 non-bleeped uses of the f-word this season that I've noticed. In the past, AMC shows have typically bleeped these words from the episode and the word was non-bleeped on the DVDs. Breaking Bad is one example, which was run on the same network with the same production and writing staff. The producers of Breaking Bad were allowed one censored f-bomb per season. But this season they are allowing multiple f-bombs, un-censored.
So why the change to have them un-censored now? Is there some sort of new trend here? A change in regulations? Or some other reason?
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The FCC has no say on the language happening in cable TV. In fact the only real reason they censor at all is due to advertising etc. In my opinion Really it was all about an image. “We are a family broadcasting company so we will censor swearing”. Also it seems they are now faced with the competition of Netflix, HBO, etc who have allowed swearing since the beginning. Here is a link on the FCC program content regulations - https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations
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According to this thread on Reddit:
RyanXera: I heard that in Breaking Bad, the channel let them have 1 or 2 F-bombs per season, something like that.
-Nazeda-: Yeah, that was on the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast the cast&crew did parallel to the show if I recall correctly. I believe Vince Gilligan mentioned they "only get a certain amount of fucks and shits".
Aaron Paul discusses the use of profanity in this appearance on Conan:
We were allowed to say as many "bitch"s as you wanted, we had six "shit"s per year, [...] and also one "f***".
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