Venezuela gives Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie the ole heave-ho

[CatWoman]

and replaces them with "Bay Watch"??????



Venezuela swaps The Simpsons for Baywatch

A Venezuelan TV channel has taken cartoon favourite The Simpsons off the air because it has been deemed inappropriate for children.

Baywatch Hawaii, the much-ridiculed series about impossibly buff and big-breasted lifesavers, has taken its place in the schedule.

Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said that the decision to change the daily 11am slot came after the National Telecommunications Commission received complaints from viewers.

"It had to be taken off," Guillen said. "They consider it to be a series that isn't appropriate for that time because it isn't appropriate for children."

The regulatory agency didn't specify which elements of the programme were deemed offensive. However, they said that showing the animated cartoon series at that hour could violate national regulations prohibiting "messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents."

Guillen said it is up to Televen's management whether The Simpsons may be shown at another time of day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/08/bbsimpsons108.xml

[bbinacan]

1. Nothing that Chavez does

shocks me anymore.

[UTUSN]

2. Add it up: the SIMPSONs are uncontrollable free speakers. Plus, El Lider had a fling with Naomi CAMP

BELL last month. The two things really do add up.