Saturday Night Live and Game of Thrones Nudity Scenes Juvenile (VIDEO)
Saturday Night Live's recent spoof of "Game of Thrones" has been heralded as humorous by many, but it has also addressed an issue that has raised many viewers concerns.
Nude scenes within "Game of Thrones," which was meant to only be occasionally muddled in with the action, has increased calls by many viewers that the use of nudity on TV has become excessive and at times grossly inappropriate.
Etisalat, the United Arabs broadcaster which runs the show stopped transmission midway through "The Night Lands" episode which aired on April 1 due to its inappropriate sexual content.
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Humaid al Suwaidi, chief executive of eVision, a television service provider owned by Etisalat stated that the episode was pulled because it exceeded the UEA's standard of decency.
"Those shows are not really suitable for the family because of the nudity scenes," al Suwaidi said. "This is a decision as per the prevailing law in the country. Whenever there is nudity, we don't show it to our viewers because we respect our viewers."
A SNL comedy skit joked that the excessive nudity was due to the show's second "creative producer" who was an adolescent, teenage boy.
Following the quick cut by Etisalat, which left viewers watching the show with nothing more than a black television screen to stare at, the decision was made to move the show's second series to a different broadcaster.
"The second series of the show is airing on the OSN First channel, broadcast by the Dubai-based Orbit Showtime Network," The National reported.
Many have commented that the nudity is unnecessary and takes away from the plot, which is based on the book series also named "Game of Thrones."
"Obviously the producers are having success with the show; it just got picked up for a third season," Katherine Coble wrote on the blog Just Another Pretty Farce, commenting on how sex scenes had been "overused to create a false interest."
"I just hope they figure out a way to make the very interesting books survive the transition to television without having to use the Naked to prod us all into caring."
