Get censors' nod to show adult films on TV: HC

MUMBAI: The couch potato will not get his daily fix of adult viewing on the idiot-box from Thursday. Tired of waiting for the plethora of TV channels to reply to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a college lecturer in March objecting to the telecast of adult films and programmes on TV, the Bombay high court on Wednesday passed interim orders restraining channels from broadcasting "any adult TV programme and film without an appropriate certificate from the Indian censor board".

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This means that films rated as ‘adult viewing' cannot be shown on TV and unless programmes like ‘Mind of a Married Man' receive the green signal from the censor board, even they cannot be dished out in living rooms across Mumbai.