Captain Harkess! SABC1 will be going gay tonight at 22:00 with the third episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day which the channel will be showing unedited and unsensored and which contains a racy gay sex scene between Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and a bar man he picks up in a casual sex encounter.
In years of covering television I can't recall public television in South Africa showing or going anywhere as far as this before when it comes to the portrayal of same sex sexual encounters. The BBC edited and made cuts to the episode in question when it was shown on Britain's public broadcaster.
After asking for a week regarding the specific episode, SABC1 finally responded on Friday indicating to me that the episode of tonight of Torchwood: Miracle Day will not be edited. "Torchwood is not edited and the channel will transmit as is, with a consumer warning ranging from 13 PG V to 16 L," said SABC1.
Torchwood: Miracle Day is actually a science fiction drama from the Starz channel in America, similar to Showtime and HBO. While tonight's sex scene was shown unedited on the satellite TV channel in America since less stringent rules apply, the BBC edited the sex scene when it was shown on public television in Britain.
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