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  • Sky Censured By Ofcom For Second Time In A Year Over Swearing, This Time On ‘Entourage’ Repeat

    Sky Censured By Ofcom For Second Time In A Year Over Swearing, This Time On ‘Entourage’ Repeat

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    Sky has been rapped by Ofcom for the second time in the space of a year over swearing in one of its repeat shows, this time Entourage.

    Ofcom said a pre-watershed repeat of Entourage on the Sky Comedy channel in August failed to provide a mandatory pin code to protect under-18s, and the word “f***ing” was broadcast. Sky stressed that the word came very soon after the show started and it was pulled with just three minutes having elapsed.

    In the UK, Ofcom’s code requires that people under 18 are protected from “unsuitable material” in programs.

    Ofcom allows shows with sex, violence or swearing to air before the evening watershed as long as they are protected by a pin code. In this instance, the pin code failed and younger viewers were exposed to the swearword. Sky said it introduced two immediate changes to prevent a reoccurrence, which “add further fail-safe resilience into the process.”

    HBO smash comedy Entourage has been available as a Sky boxset for nearly a decade and is regularly repeated.

    ‘Game of Thrones’ incident

    Sky added that there is a “difference” between the Entourage incident and what happened with Game of Thrones last year, when a repeat of the mega-hit aired in the morning without a pin code and under-18s were able to easily access an episode “which contained multiple use of offensive language including ‘c**t’, ‘f**ck’ and ‘s**t’.”

    The Entourage error, Sky said, was due to a fault with the “EPG meta data that activates the PIN demand on some of our Sky Platforms, not an ‘excess of data’ in the system.” It stressed that Game of Thrones and Entourage are the only two breaches out of 23,000 hours worth of similar content broadcast since the introduction of the pin code in 2020.

    Ofcom took into account Sky’s pulling of the Entourage repeat almost immediately after the swearword along with its attempts since to protect viewers from future slip-ups. However, the regulator still found the pay-TV giant to be in breach of its code.

    A recent Ofcom report found that viewers main fears around profane content center on the need to protect children, rather than any impact these shows can have on individual adults.

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    Max Goldbart

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  • Adrian Grenier Adds a Baby to His Entourage

    Adrian Grenier Adds a Baby to His Entourage

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    Here’s hoping that Turtle follows the Car Seat Lady and gets some tips on how to install the most tricked-out five-point restraint on the market, because Vinny had a baby. 

    Adrian Grenier and wife Jordan Roemmele Grenier announced the birth of their first child, Seiko Aurelius Grenier, in a joint Instagram post Thursday.

    The couple said in the caption that they “want to make sure to give our baby an easeful transition from spirit world to this one.”

    “All rejoice this gift to the world, Seiko Aurelius Grenier, our exquisite golden one, welcome earth side!”

    Little Seiko, who shares a name with a luxury timepiece brand (“seiko” means “success” or “exquisite” in Japanese, which the new parents acknowledged by calling him “our exquisite golden one” in the caption), is something of a surprise drop for the public: The couple never publicly shared that they were expecting a baby. It’s kind of their thing, you might say—they announced just under a year ago, last June, that they’d eloped in Mexico. 

    Other than his full name, the Greniers revealed very little about their new addition in the post. Date of birth: “A few weeks ago.” Vibes: Pretty good, it seems, if “we couldn’t be more blissed out” is anything to go by. The parenting plan: “We are cultivating our world now to preserve his innocence, his magic, and to leave enough quiet space to hear and encourage his roar.” 

    Jordan shared a second Instagram post with a gallery of maternity photos that dropped another little tidbit of info, that Seiko took his sweet time in being born. (Sorry, “transitioning from the spirit world to this one,” to use the Greniers’ preferred phrasing.) She mentioned that she was 7.5 months pregnant in the photos, but “fast forward to 42 weeks I’m pretty sure I doubled in size.” 

    A few weeks ago, Adrian marked Mother’s Day with a post that, in retrospect, has big “wow, pregnancy and/or childbirth are extremely metal and I am terrified and in awe of it after witnessing it up close” vibes. 

    “Been doing a lot of reflecting recently on a mom’s unmatched ability to give life,” he wrote in the caption of a post, a gallery of photos of himself and his own mother. “It’s a big something that we don’t acknowledge and revere enough in society – like, truly take the time and energy to hold up mothers on high for creating life itself! I for one am only now beginning to realize the cosmic-magic at work; the spiritual creativity that only a mother can manifest. I wonder why it wasn’t made clear to me by the world.” 

    Only time will tell what role Seiko may have in the extended Entourage Cinematic Universe. 

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    Kase Wickman

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