{"id":26928,"date":"2011-09-19T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26928"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:22:02","slug":"china-censors-cut-super-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26928","title":{"rendered":"China: Censors cut Super Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>&#8216;s version of <a title=\"Wikipedia - Pop Idol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_Idol\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Idol<\/a>, Super Girl, has been <a title=\"Global Times - Super Girl taken off air\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/NEWS\/tabid\/99\/ID\/675778\/Super-girl-taken-off-air.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">suspended for one year<\/a>\u00a0by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Despite attracting up to\u00a0400m viewers at its peak, <a title=\"FT - Censors kill off China's Super Girl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/8ba5b642-e1c1-11e0-9915-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YNflis00\" target=\"_blank\">reports suggest<\/a> some officials saw the show as subversive, with audience voting allegedly mirroring Western-style democracy. However, the order from SARFT to the show&#8217;s broadcaster, Hunan TV, reportedly stated that the programme had often exceeded its allotted time slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8216;s version of Pop Idol, Super Girl, has been suspended for one year\u00a0by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Despite attracting up to\u00a0400m viewers at its peak, reports suggest some officials saw the show as subversive, with audience voting allegedly mirroring Western-style democracy. However, the order from SARFT to the show&#8217;s broadcaster, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,7364,3818,3817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26945,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928\/revisions\/26945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}