When GSN was rerunning the Maury Povich hosted revival of "Twenty One," (that's right, it wasn't hyphenated!), I recall a question came up quoting the line from Peter Finch in the movie "Network," where he said "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
As Povich verbally read the question, the word, "hell," was bleeped, and as the question scrolled onto the screen, the word "hell," was pixelated (or blocked).
I recall once hearing that a contestant was once on some show and said that one of the first things he/she would do with money earned was get a new dog for their kids, since the one they had before had died. The host uttered, "Good Lord!" and "Lord," was censored out, leading viewers to think the host said, "Good!"
You sure that wasn’t PAX, now Ion? That was a very religious network that usually muted any profanity - even damn or hell - and I remember them censoring things like you described.
Oh, maybe you're right, but whichever cable network it was aired on, I know the censoring of the word "hell," did occur. Sorry for my error.
