1. What is watershed
(E4)
The watershed (in the UK) is 9.00 pm. 9pm and after is called 'after the watershed'.
This means that children are expected to be in bed by 9pm.
After 9pm any program aired will mean more swearing or nudity because children or
anyone younger than the ages of 16 should be in bed by then. Watershed will also
count for families who watch programs together that are childish movies or targeted
for young people.
There are programs that are the same but are air ed before watershed and than
repeated. This means extra scenes, unseen in the original airing time and plus any
scenes that consider to have violent, or have too more adult themes and of strong
language.

2. Rules for Pre-watershed
(E4)
Watershed is controlled by the broadcasters of the program before it is aired.
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Rules for pre-watershed broadcasting:
No swearing or strong language
No nudity/sexual activity (sexual intercourse)
No violence (blood and other offensive things that can tip off the audience.
No 18 rated content of any sort
No drug or alcohol abuse
No racist programs or hurtful to other cultures
No scenes of Horror
If they defy the rules of breaking the watershed agreement which every channel into
existence has had to stick by, they will be fined and expected to pay and if matters
become more serious It can mean that a channel can even stopped being aired and can
lose there company logo and reputation.

3. My production
My production will be before 9pm, meaning I will not have included:
• No swearing or strong language
• No nudity/sexual activity (sexual intercourse)
• No violence
• No 18 rated content of any sort
• No drug or alcohol abuse
• No racist programs or hurtful to other cultures
• No scenes of Horror
• I will keep my production away from the issues above. I am not allowed to show
alcohol abuse but I will have an alcohol bottle as a prop. Also in my production I
have understood the swearing condition before 9pm and as I am targeting an
audience for the suburban areas I will decide to use slang to avoid swearing.
Finally to not display violence so I will have characters already dead and blood
dripping from them so that the audience may not thing we’re not supporting
violence.

4. Pilot episodes
• A pilot episode is a unique separate episode from a television
series. If bought then pilot episodes are sometimes aired as
the introductory episode. Pilot episodes are an early step in
the development of a T.V series. Pilot episodes are a
prototype of a series to help sell there show to a television
network. Television networks can realize by watching the pilot
if it can be a success. It can help start off the series to get
known and to reach its target audience as the introductory
episode. A pilot will not be publicly screened if it doesn't sell
to a television network.