Arabic TV pulls ‘Big Brother’
An Arab television channel said Monday it was temporarily pulling the plug on its Arabic version of the hit reality show “Big Brother” after charges of indecency.
But an official of the MBC satellite channel said it would relaunch the show from outside Bahrain, where it was produced. Protesters in the conservative Gulf Arab state said showing unmarried people living together offended Islam.
“This decision aims to avoid exposing MBC and its programs to accusations that it offends Arab values, customs and morals, because we consider MBC to be first and foremost a channel that belongs to the Arab world,” officials of the popular Saudi-owned channel said in a statement.
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