Channel 4 Banned season

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The Channel 4 Banned season was a series of television documentaries on the UK's Channel 4 in 2004-2005, examining the history of explicit and controversial material on British television, and its infiltration of the mainstream.

These documentaries included (original airdate if known):

X-Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban, 24 July 2004 — Music videos (IMDB page)
X-Rated, 9 December 2004 (possibly a.k.a. X-Rated: The Sex Films They Tried to Ban^[1]) — About films given the X certificate by the BBFC. (IMDB)
X-Rated: The TV They Tried to Ban, 6 March 2005 — A history of television programmes that caused controversy, pushed boundaries or were banned in some way.
X-Rated: Top 20 Most Controversial TV Moments, March 2005 — Similar to the above, but measuring the number of complaints that programmes received (IMDB)
Banned in the UK, 7, 8, 9, 10 March 2005 — Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art. (IMDB)
X-Rated: The Ads They Tried to Ban — TV advertisements that were controversial, or banned from UK broadcast due to their content.