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In the United States, Standards and Practices (also referred to as Broadcast Standards and Practices) is the name traditionally given to the department at a television network which is responsible for the moral, ethical, and legal implications of the program that network airs. Standards and Practices also ensures fairness on television game shows, in which they are the adjunct to the judges at the production company level. ==Examples of intervention by Standards and Practices== *The Standards and Practices department of NBC censored one of Jack Paar's jokes on the February 10, 1960, episode of ''The Tonight Show''. Paar was so very taken aback by the network's decision to censor the joke, he walked off the live show the very next day. As he left his desk in the middle of the program, he said, "I am leaving ''The Tonight Show''. There must be a better way of, uh, making a living than this." Paar reappeared on March 7, 1960, strolled on stage, struck a pose, and said, "As I was saying before I was interrupted..." After the audience erupted in applause, Paar continued, "When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living. Well, I've looked... and there isn't." He then went on to explain his departure with typical frankness: "Leaving the show was a childish and perhaps emotional thing. I have been guilty of such action in the past and will perhaps be again. I'm totally unable to hide what I feel. It is not an asset in show business, but I shall do the best I can to amuse and entertain you and let other people speak freely, as I have in the past." * Episode 97 of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)'' has never aired in the United States due to pressures from Fox Broadcast & Standards (although 4Kids Entertainment leased the time from the network for their FoxBox block and aired the series, it still had to meet Fox's broadcast standards). On the official TMNT website, Lloyd Goldfine states: *The final three episodes of the first season of ''Moral Orel'' were held back for various amounts of time by Standards and Practices due to being too dark and over the top sexually crude even for Adult Swim, which airs many shows rated TV-MA. Another episode entitled "God's Chef" was delayed for months before the Adult Swim network was able to show it. It has since been released uncensored along with the rest of season 1 and part of season 2 on DVD. *Adult Swim was intending on airing ''Elfen Lied'' in April 2006 but was rejected because of its violence and nudity and that the only way it could pass was to have it severely edited. The series eventually aired on United States television unedited and uncut on IFC (since the channel had much more lenient standards on content (since it aired similarly violent anime such as ''Basilisk'')) from April 6 to June 29, 2007. *''X-Men: The Animated Series'' was very heavily influenced by BS&P. Unlike the comic book, characters were rarely ever in any danger and characters almost never hit each other directly. *The CGI series ''ReBoot'' was heavily censored by ABC during its two-season run on the network. The network announced the show would be canceled after its second season after it was purchased by The Walt Disney Company, which would make way for a schedule of all Disney-produced series. The writers wrote scripts for episodes that mocked ABC's S&P department due to it being canceled, including the insertion of unnoticed profanity within a stream of binary numbers. ''ReBoot'' went on to produce another successful season and two made-for-TV movies on other networks which had less strict S&P departments and content standards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broadcast Standards and Practices (US)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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