Producer John Langley was screening a rough cut of his new Fox network show Cop Files a couple of weeks ago, and he wasn't happy. In one scene, a female police officer surprises a burglary suspect in a warehouse; he attacks her savagely, then she shoots him in self-defense. When Fox censors objected to the violence, Langley was forced to make drastic excisions. "It was absurd," he says. "The pressure was on us to de-emphasize the attack, so you wound up showing her shooting him without any motivation." Langley, like many others in Hollywood, knows the reason for this outbreak of...
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