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Re-editing sex change special may be the unkindest cut of all

Please don't panic. The scheduled three-part television series about sex-change operation, Khon Kon Khon, hasn't actually been banned by Modern 9 TV. A rumour went around that the series, which was replaced by a two-episode series about Luang Ta Maha Bua, didn't go air because it had been banned.

A capture from youtube.com features project manager Yollada Krirkkong in the first of the three-part series on free sex-change operation. The series was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Modern 9 TV on March 1.

What happened was that TV Burapha, the company producing the series, was asked to edit the content down to two hours on the very night the series was supposed to air. The request was to shift the main focus away from the story of a 53-year-old person trapped in the wrong body and desperately wanting to have a sex-change operation, and to make the content more medically oriented. It was thought that the original theme might be too provocative for the general public.

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  • Kaweeka

    Discussion 1 : 10/03/2011 at 01:09 PM1

    And how exactly is that this was not banned them? Rather strange statement considering that it was stopped from being broadcast. I suppose the change in focus and purpose us not qualified as a ban, especially when it happened on the same day it was to air?

    Perhaps if MCOT blocks the YouTube address we would finally call it what it was?
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