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HBO crime doc should have aired later – CBSC

OTTAWA - While the airing of actual images from a murder scene did not exploit the victims when HBO Canada broadcast the documentary film Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, it did violate time of day restrictions ruled the CBSC in its decision. This is the first time a CBSC adjudicating panel has examined a complaint about a pay television broadcast since it began administering the Pay TV Codes in September 2008. Paradise Lost 3 is the third in a series of feature-length documentary films about three adolescent males who were convicted of murdering three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas in the 1990s. The...