To think that if a programme or scene isn't suitable to be broadcast this week then it is not suitable to be broadcast AT ALL?

[BalloonSlayer]

I see on the news tonight that a scene in Eastenders is having to be re-filmed as it shows someone picking up a prostitute and trying to strangle her.

I also saw that Coronation Street has been postponed as it was to show a gun seige and two characters being killed off.

Why are scenes like this only seen as unacceptable when something high-profile has happened in the news?

Surely if it's too distressing this week, then it's too distressing any week?

Yeap thought about this the other night

when someone in Eastenders was telling a ghost story about a man who had run up debts shot his wife daughter & dog then shot himself, I didn't think that was appropriate considering that por family last year

YANBU

i can't understand why anyone watches this kind of rubbish at any time.. it's hardly entertaining

I'm reminded of a friend who couldn't understand the fuss about the Dunblane massacre. We had another friend who had gone to that school and her family still lived in Dunblane. It won't just be the deceased and injured who are affected, but whole extended communities.