Blasted Again

There never seems to be an end to all these complaints eh?

From: http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201008091502-175092.html

观众狠批新传媒　靠R级镜头拼收视

露乳沟、胸部与臀部震动特写、摸胸、床戏、激凸……，本地电视剧频频出现“R”级镜头，观众猛批新传媒靠有色镜头拼收视！

声称“再也看不下去”的网友搜集了不少“证据”做成视频放到网上论坛，引发热议。这些视频包括在5月份下档的电视剧《我在你左右》，其中一幕拍摄女主角瑞恩和鹤天赐夜间同行，灯光下穿着白色紧身衣的瑞恩在灯光下，胸部轮廓若隐若现，还出现“激凸”。

在《三个女人一个宝》中，戚玉武和郭蕙雯发展出恋情，一次在搀扶差点跌倒的郭蕙雯时，竟出现“抓胸”镜头。

另外，去年播映的《煮妇的假期》中，有一幕是徐绮买健身器材时适用一台减肥震动机，结果镜头由下而上，拍一直抖动的臀部和胸部，还有胸部特写和陈泰铭看得目不转睛的镜头。

在《红白喜事》中，张振寰和欧萱的妹妹在酒店的床戏也拍得蛮久。

《联合晚报》之前也报道《泳闯琴关》原是励志戏，却变激情戏，戏中袁帅一吻就上床。

网友alchemist_acid说：“真恶心！电视台真的该做好品质管制！”另一名网友twinkle07则说：“真不知道电视台在做些什么！”

网友纷纷批评，新传媒为刺激收视而失分寸。网友NWT1978说：“本地制作竟沦落成这样，要利用这些方式，根本不值得看。”

新传媒：不愿置评

对此，新传媒中文节目与宣传企划部副总裁陈国明受询时，不愿置评。

暴力强奸镜头多 接媒发局警告

“渲染暴力”＋强奸镜头，新传媒7月被媒发局警告。媒体发展管理局华文节目咨询委员会指出，本地电视剧一再出现暴力暴虐画面，会对年轻观众产生不良影响，令人失望。

在报告中，《双子星》及《叮当神探》都被点名，指戏中的暴力程度让家长不安。此外，《小娘惹》中出现的强奸镜头也被批评。

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I don't understand why the reporter made this into a news article in the first place. This is what we call 'sensationalization'. It's probably only a handful of whiny netizens grumbling away. When the word 'netizens' or '网民' is used in the reports, it usually refers to members of the Hardwarezone (HWZ) forum, which obviously doesn't represent the entire internet community. HWZ is owned by SPH, so naturally SPH will try to extract news stories from there, no matter how ridiculous and worthless they might be.

I don't think the purpose of such suggestive scenes is to raise viewership. Unless they are blatantly publicized in the trailers, how would viewers know if such scenes are going to appear? When such scenes are shown, will people automatically sense their appearance and turn on their TVs or switch channel immediately, thus increasing the viewership?

Furthermore I doubt most Singaporeans tune in to dramas for the sake of watching sexual scenes. Saying that those scenes were introduced to attract viewers is, in a way, underestimating the viewers' (and producers') intelligence.

The level of explicitness in SG dramas has already been toned down, compared to other countries that include more explicit contents in their dramas.