Week 19

Top Gear, BBC4 and the watershed: what we learned from Tony HallBBC director general stands byJeremy Clarkson in Radio Times interview and says watershed probably won’t be around in 20 to 30 years

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/27/top-gear-bbc4-watershed-tony-hall

The 9pm watershed’s days are numbered. “The watershed is still a useful way of judging the content and sensitivities, and taste and decency issues. But has the watershed got a future in 20 or 30 years’ time?
• Watershed will be going down in the ext 20 - 30 years. This coudl have a mjor effect on teh content that kids see and how they start to view things, as they will be open to more explicit content. This could have a negative effect on young children.