The rules governing what may be said and shown on regulated television, enforced in the United States by network standards departments and federal guidelines, and in Britain by watershed rules. The Shane Gillis affair turned on these standards twice over: his accidental swear broke American rules, while Ania Magliano’s deliberate one was entirely legal on British late-night television after the watershed.
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