BBC lesbian drama’s ‘funeral parlour sex scene causes uproar’
October 14th, 2010 - 4:55 pm ICT by ANILondon, Oct 14 (ANI): Television viewers were outraged when BBC’s new lesbian drama showed a sex scene in a funeral parlour.
Scores contacted TV Biz and web forums after Lip Service featured women romping in front of a corpse, reports The Sun.
One furious viewer dismissed it as “glamorised soft porn” while another wrote, “It made me gag”.
The show, billed as “a bold new drama about the sex lives and love affairs of 20-something lesbians in contemporary Glasgow”, is aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds and aired at 11pm.
In Tuesday’s first episode Frankie (Ruta Gedmintas) seduced a funeral parlour receptionist before the pair had sex beside a body.
Viewer Alice Seddon, from Thurrock, Essex, told TV Biz, “I was shocked and horrified. It was so off-putting I switched off.”
“Me and my lesbian friends all gathered excitedly round the telly for what was lauded as a groundbreaking realistic portrayal of lesbian lifestyle in the UK.
“Instead what we got was more unbelievable, unrealistic, stereotypical pap. The characters were unconvincing,” said another forum user. (ANI)
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