A UK TV channel has taken to social media to apologise after censoring multiple scenes from popular Canadian series Schitt's Creek, including a same-sex kiss between characters David and Jake and dialogue referencing gay sex.
It began when a fan of the show tweeted about network 4Music's edits, getting the attention of series co-creator and star Dan Levy.
"4Music showed Schitt's Creek with cut dialogue between David and Patrick," the fan wrote on Twitter - adding that a line of dialogue, "to sleep with me or whatever", was cut from one scene.
The social media user continued: “But their kiss is there. And episodes earlier talk of Moira sleeping with Roland remains. And Moira still says ‘f**k,’ so some curious censoring.
“The next episode where Jake kisses David — no kiss — But Patrick and David still kiss. Again with odd censoring.
“Are they limiting my gay content? Can I only see PG-related kissing boys, but no talk of having sex? And no other boy can come along kissing on them?”
After seeing the tweets, Levy, who, retweeted the original poster's thread, adding: “Is this true 4 Music? Censoring kissing and intimate dialogue?”
He went on to describe the censorship as “highly disturbing and dangerous” while noting that the removed sequence was a “big laugh from the scene!”
The UK network eventually responded, putting the whole kerfuffle down to "human error".
"We’re huge fans of Schitt’s Creek and are sorry the show broadcast wasn’t as we planned, this was 100% human error," 4Music wrote.
The network added: "One of David’s kisses with Jake was inadvertently lost from the version that we broadcast, but it’ll be sorted for all future broadcasts of this episode."
Levy responded: "Thank you @4Music for acknowledging human error. The human that edited out that content did make a very dangerous error. I’m glad and relieved that this is going to be fixed."
He added: "Presumably across all platforms/including the other David/Patrick scene that was trimmed from S4E1?"
