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Family Groups Not Crash Hot On ‘Underbelly’; Sky Blue, Water Wet

9:54AM Clem Bastow | Incredibly enough, it turns out that the conservative family groups of Australia are not too keen on the sound of Channel Nine’s upcoming (pending legal outcomes!) drama series Underbelly! This may have had something to do with the “viral” video circulating featuring a pasted-together montage of a) gun shots, b) sexy scenes and c) the exceptional use of the word “f–k” from the show (we like Callan Mulvey’s Graham Kennedy-esque turn). The Daily Tele has ‘censored’ the video for your pleasure, and while we can’t embed it, we can provide a laff-inducing screenshot (it’s available to watch here, and we highly recommend it – “Bang, bang – you’re f–ked” – genius!): Anyway, it’s this vid that has the Australian Family Association up in arms. AFA’s Angela Conway described the [M] classification as contemptuous. “The programmers are showing contempt for children and their parents,” she said. “There will be a lot of teenagers still hanging around when the program starts and Nine is only making parents’ jobs harder.” Perhaps someone should tell Ms Conway that the story here could actually be that Nine is in fact asking parents to do their own job and not expect major broadcasting corporations to do it for them! More »