(s6e5, first aired October 30, 2000)
It doesn’t seem possible that there was a time, not so long ago, when you could tune in to shows like NYPD Blue or Xena and see some nudity on regular old basic cable, or even on broadcast TV.
Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor naked in an episode of Xena
Likely body doubles according to info on IMDB.
Lucy had 2 separate stunt doubles for just that episode.
This is how we know the terrorists won.
True … except not the same terrorists we expected to be fighting.
The biggest change was broadcast tv where some nudity was fairly common from early 90s until 2004 and the infamous Janet Jackson incident. The changes in the FCC fines brought by Bush was enough to send them toward a different strategy of mostly limiting the nudity to premium channels and new channel tiers like “preferred digital” they were adding with the massive expansion of bandwidth.
As broadcast ratings have only continued to decline and lose advertisers there hasn’t been much reason for them to try to lure viewers back with things like naked pretty girls. By now these companies have stated that linear is going away and they are interested in selling off the networks. Basically, they just don’t care about them so no reason to expect anything interesting.
Also, in the case of shots like this, where they’re in the background and at a distance, I think they were shot with the idea of the resolution and capacity of most televisions at the time– that sure, they’re “naked” but you really can’t see anything, so it was fine enough for broadcast. But a similar shot done today would be a lot clearer and wouldn’t fly unless actual nudity was the intent. I’m thinking about the shot of Terry Farrell on the beach in the episode of Quantum Leap, where they have her in shadow and in broadcast TV quality for 1992 you couldn’t make any details out. But you see that shot now on high resolution, you can see the pasties and modesty patch clear as day.
All I know is that was really Charlotte’s Ross ass on NYPD Blue & fuck the FCC for taking that away
More examples of right wing cancel culture.
Now there’s left wing forced inclusion and degenerate BS
And the fact that you find much more explicit things on the internet today and also find scenes from closed channel series on the internet, ended up making nudity on open TV obsolete and was much less explicit
Hell, make The Bachelorette all nude, I might finally watch
I’m not sure how those shows work, but isn’t The Bachelorette one woman auditioning many guys, while The Bachelor is one guy and many hot chicks? If I have that right, I don’t think I’d enjoy a nude version of The Bachelorette.