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How Australia saw Oscars slap live, uncensored.

"The Australian audience got the whole thing in its entirety," says Seven's Brook Hall.

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Australia saw the now-infamous Oscars slap Live to air and uncensored, ahead of Americans, Seven has confirmed.

Speaking yesterday at Screen Forever, Seven’s Head of Scheduling Brook Hall said, “We got an incorrect feed actually. The feed provided to us was not the American feed. We actually had audio problems early on with the red carpet, but as it turned out, because we had to stick by that once we had gone to it, Australians got the full uncensored version. The Americans were 10 seconds on delay.

“So we the Australian audience got the whole thing in its entirety. A lot of the global clips were using Seven’s footage because there was no bleep on our version. We were -to the second- live … I guess technically slightly ahead of the Americans.

“When we saw the slap, I was thinking ‘This is a skit, right?’ But when the profanities came we realised quickly it wasn’t credible.”

That led to Seven hurriedly changing plans for a planned primetime replay, originally scheduled at 9:40pm.

“Angus (Ross, Chief Content Officer) was saying, ‘There’s going to be so much chatter … do we bring it earlier for the replay?’ We shifted it forward to an 8:30 start because there was so much chatter going on.”

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  1. Well I for one was absolutely furious that they brought it forward. I was taping the Amazing Race finale & noticed when Survivor finished that the Oscars were on. I thought why are the Oscars on it should be Amazing Race. Now I have to wait another week for the finale. Ch 9 have done the same with La Brea. Putting on the Underbelly mini series next week & making us wait another week for the finale. What is wrong with these people? Whoever is in charge of programming at both networks needs to be sacked.

    1. Well you should have watched it live but if you couldn’t at least record the live version and watch that. But yes it’s annoying when stations just decide to change schedules on the night and put everyone out.

  2. When they showed the incident on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, I was surprised to see the footage had the Australian ‘7’ watermark in the bottom right corner; rather than that of the American ABC host broadcaster.

  3. Imagine the outcry if Seven edited out the f-bombs in the prime-time rerun? Like when Michael Cole saying “Oh shit” at the Logies was cut out of the replay and there were complaints that it was cut

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