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Last year, MTRCB introduces their own rating system on television shows aired on the Philippines. Commonly, most programs are rated PG, or Parental Guidance, while a few shows such as Sabadabadog and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are rated G, as in for all ages. Those rated-PG shows and rated-G shows are nothing new to us. This rating system from the MTRCB is nothing really new to us until the encounter of this kind of rating system that I am not particularly familiar of... It's SPG or STRONG PARENTAL GUIDANCE.
What the heck is SPG anyway? Firstly, a program titled SOCO (Scene of the Crime Operatives) got the SPG treatment. Why? There are signs to consider if a show is rated SPG. These are suggestive dialogue, Strong Language, Sexual Themes, Violence, and more. I really don't bother why last week's episode of Lokomoko on TV5 is now rated SPG. Even the second season of Gandang Gabi Vice is now rated SPG, even though it used to be a rated-PG programme. So now, my favorite TV5 show, Face to Face, is now rated SPG because of you know, violence and language spurting out. What's going on?
Because we live in a "Nanny State", the entertainment industry are making stringent regulations in programming. This new "STRONG PARENTAL GUIDANCE" rating established by the MTRCB is just plain wrong and that made us silly to watch our favorite shows. Why? Why would you rate a show that was used to be rated-PG as rated-SPG? PARENTAL GUIDANCE is fine and it should be. We really don't need the STRONG PARENTAL GUIDANCE rating because that's rubbish! Rubbish I said! Rubbish! We have mommies and daddies watching shows with the whole family and that's okay!
What's next? Make a rating that is much worse than SPG? Oh, come on! You're only humiliating the Philippine Television and the viewers of all ages!
The message then is clear. If your favorite show used to be rated PG, now rated SPG, don't complain to the network. Complain to the MTRCB.
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