Archer

I forgot where I read this, but apparently, once you’re on paid cable (any level, not just premium), you are essentially allowed to do whatever you want. Thing is, non-premium channels still have advertisers, and they have their own sets of general guidelines and practices.

So basically, FX is totally allowed to go full sexposition a la HBO if they wanted to, but they generally don’t because they don’t want to alienate advertisers or something.

I forgot where I read this, but apparently, once you’re on paid cable (any level, not just premium), you are essentially allowed to do whatever you want. Thing is, non-premium channels still have advertisers, and they have their own sets of general guidelines and practices.

Yeah, basically paid cable is subject to legal restrictions on pornography along with everybody else, but they’re not subject to ordinary FCC decency regulation. It’s just prudish cultural norms and in particular advertiser sensitivities that lead to things like the Daily Show being bleeped and Archer not having nudity. Because HBO doesn’t depend on advertising, they can ignore those sensitivities.

From the FCC’s FAQ:

Do the FCC’s rules apply to cable and satellite programming? In the past, the FCC has enforced the indecency and profanity prohibitions only against conventional broadcast services, not against subscription programming services such as cable and satellite. However, the prohibition against obscene programming applies to subscription programming services at all times.

The legal background is all around the push vs pull distinction - people have to actively subscribe to cable, whereas broadcast TV and radio is pushed out to everyone (in principle). For rather dubious reasons, the courts have felt this is a meaningful distinction when it comes to censorship, dating all the way back to Pacifica.

IANAL (nor do I play one on TV), but isn’t the legal basis on this stuff, at least in the US, based more on the airwaves – which are a public good – as opposed to cable (which is a private transmission medium)?

IANAL (nor do I play one on TV), but isn’t the legal basis on this stuff, at least in the US, based more on the airwaves – which are a public good – as opposed to cable (which is a private transmission medium)?

Yes and no. In practice, it’s because the FCC doesn’t generally license cable channels, whereas it does license OTA broadcasters. But the legal jurisprudence on that is that cable requires special equipment to receive broadcasts (again, like I say it’s not an argument that seems very convincing - it’s not like OTA broadcasts go straight into children’s brains).

Again, from the FCC, though I can dig up some case law later on:

Cable and satellite services excepted from indecency restrictions

Congress has charged the Commission with enforcing the statutory prohibition against airing indecent programming “by means of radio communications.” The Commission has historically interpreted this restriction to apply to radio and television broadcasters and has never extended it to cover cable or satellite operators. In addition, because cable and satellite services are subscription-based, viewers of these services have greater control over the programming content that comes into their homes, whereas broadcast content traditionally has been available to any member of the public with a radio or television. As noted above, however, obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and is prohibited with respect to cable and satellite services, as well as radio and television broadcasters.

George Coe, who was a member of the original SNL cast and provided the voice for Woodhouse, died today.

Well, not today, but yes, recently.

Yup, you’re right. I saw the headline today and assumed that was also the death date.

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So? Any theories on how they will carry on IF they get another season?

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Is that another Cyborg in the pool? A clone? Or will the show carry on with a cyborg doppelganger?

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Some people think that Luigi the truck driver was Archer in disguise and that he had two Archer bots (just like there were two Krieger bots).

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Best idea I read is that it’s going to be a movie script based on their adventures.

Season 7, Archer Entourage.

Okay, “Grabney Coleman” made me laugh harder than it should have.

Get ready for the Danger Zone!

Looks like Sterling Archer will live to drink—and maybe fight, and definitely drink some more—another day, as FX brings the surprising news that it has renewed Archer for three more seasons.

The “surprising” part comes in the wake of Archer’s season seven finale, in which some things happen and we’ll just leave it at that. Said events, and FX’s late renewal of the show, left some viewers unsure whether Archer would return at all. But now, like an overly apologetic friend who is so sorry they didn’t text you back right away, FX is giving fans not only a season eight, but seasons nine and 10 as well. “The move to Los Angeles this past season as private detectives was just the latest twist in Archer’s legendary exploits, and the next three seasons will to be just as amazing and unpredictable,” FX original programming president Nick Grad says.

These unpredictable new seasons will be shorter than in the past, though, clocking in at only eight episodes apiece. The first of these shortened seasons will debut in “early 2017.”

A little worried the show quality will keep sliding. It’s not bad, but this season felt like as good an ending point as we’re likely to get.

I think the basic formula and cast would keep me watching indefinitely, but I hope it goes out on a high note, not a “meh”.

I feel this forum failed me massively by not alerting me to Season 7 which is on a couple of months ago. Reading back I see that people were talking about it here, but I always read “this season” to mean season 6.

Anyway, season 7 is on Canadian netflix now, can’t wait to watch it all.

What am I, your TV habit supervisor?

Anyone else check out the season premiere? I know it might come off as a little gimmicky, but I loved it and feeling really optimistic for the rest of the series.

Archer hasn’t been breaking any new ground in recent seasons (I liked the Archer Vice season but was ambivalent about the actual setting shift), but it’s established itself as “comfort TV” for me, so I’m really glad it’s back.

Watching the “Dreamland” premiere and loving the Noir take on Archer. Of course I absolutely adored the big Raymond Chandler novels and Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.

I think Dreamland has been really good so far. Archer as a noir PI is a great fit.