The Federal Communications Commission ruled on Friday that The WB’s “Angel” won’t have to pay a price for a raunchy episode from the show’s final season.
In the episode “Destiny,” the show’s titular vampire (David Boreanaz) is seen in an intimate moment with a female character and, according to complaints filed by the always vigilant Parents Television Council, his hips can be seen “moving back and forth.” The PTC was also disturbed by an additional scene in which a female is seen transforming into her vampire form and biting her partner, another woman, on the neck. In this scene, the PTC was particularly bothered by the heavy breathing.
According to the AP, in its Friday ruling, the FCC declared that the “Angel” scenes were not “sufficiently graphic or explicit to render the program patently offensive” by contemporary standards to meet the level of indecency.
The complain was specifically filed against Washington’s WBDC-TV. The FCC determined that according to precedents established by the board in the past, the “Angel” scenes weren’t “patently offensive.”
