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| by Dave Michaels |
November 17, 2000
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| "Talking Blue TV Unceremoniously Dumped From Local Cable Channel Again"
Pennsylvania-based cable company Adelphia Cable has pulled the
plug on adult-themed cable access shows, which includes the television
version of this website: Talking Blue TV.
The cable giant, which recently acquired Century Cable in the Santa Monica
and surrounding beach community areas, sent out letters to the producers of
such shows as The Dr. Susan Block Show, Colin's Sleazy Friends and Talking
Blue TV. All three shows carried adult material in an uncensored format.
FCC regulations that guide what materials could be shown on commercial
stations throughout the U.S. require cable companies such as Adelphia to set
aside air time for local broadcasters. Under provisions set up by the FCC,
cable outlets are prohibited from censoring public access shows as long as
the conform to the weakly-defined term "within community standards".
Because
of the relaxation of rules, cable access producers have been allowed to
discuss sexuality, often in words that would sometimes be deemed obscenity or
profanity on standard television. Under the "community standards" clause,
some cable shows, including Talking Blue TV, are permitted to depict nudity.
Adelphia Cable, owned by the Rigas family of Pennsylvania, is the sixth
largest cable provider in the United States and provides service to over six
million homes.
"New Sensations Releases Dark Angels"
Video company New Sensations is set to release their one-year-in-the-making vampire porn movie Dark Angels. The distributor hosted a premiere party, attended by the film's stars with the notable
exception being the movie's lead actress Jewel De'Nyle.
The problem-plagued shoot had suffered from numerous delays during filming
and while director Nic Andrews would not come right out and say that many of
the problems were due to "creative differences" between he and his lead
actress, the stout filmmaker peppered his film with in-jokes about an unnamed
adult actress too drunk to show up on the set.
De'Nyle previouslly was under an exclusive contract with New Sensations but
the actress and the video company parted ways earlier this year.
The bloody fx-filled movie concerns De'Nyle playing an eyewitness to an attack by vamp queen Sydnee Steele, who then sets out to target Nyle as her
next victim. Fighting against the clock, De'Nyle races to find a "cure" for her rapidly onsetting appetite for blood. Co-star Evan Stone steals many of
the scenes playing an over-the-top, snappy-one-liner eschewing vampire henchman.
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