FX Boss: Why we let ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Drop F-Bombs

Norman Weiss March 2, 2016, 12:38 pm

FX boss: Why we let The People v. O.J. Simpson drop F-bombs

“We thought it was important and artistically relevant,” says FX president John Landgraf, who has yet to hear any complaints from viewers. Although the FCC doesn’t regulate cable, basic cable shows usually limit profanity to avoid offending advertisers. “I don’t think we’re going to use ‘f*ck’ or ‘motherf*cker’ as a noun, adjective, verb, and everything in between,” Landgraf adds. “But when it’s important, it’s important. In this particular instance, it was kind of the valedictory line of Sarah Paulson playing Marcia Clark at the end of the episode. We thought the episode would have been weakened for bleeping or cutting it.”

John Singleton on directing The People v. O.J.: “I wanted to make sure I didn’t shoot it like a legal drama”

The Boyz n the Hood director says of shooting last night’s The Race Card episode, which focused on Johnnie Cochran vs. Christopher Darden: “They were more like cowboys…and I had to put them in adversarial positions, like gunslingers, but they were using the law as a weapon.” PLUS: Sterling K. Brown reveals all the research he did to play Darden — including a failed attempt to get Darden to talk, how factual was this week’s episode?, the real Carl Douglas watched last night’s episode with the actor who played him, and Courtney B. Vance reacted with “fear” when he landed the Johnnie Cochran role.

HBO won’t give the media Game of Thrones Season 6 episodes in advance in wake of last year’s leak

After the first four episodes of Season 5 surfaced last year on BitTorrent before the TV premiere, HBO switched to a more secure online screening system for the press. Yet HBO has decided not to take any chances this year. “We’re not sending out press copies this year, anywhere in the world,” HBO programming president Michael Lombardo tells EW. “There will be no copies for review.”