History DistancedFromCurrentEvents / LiveActionTV

* In some kind of awkward aversion, the third season of ''Series/UnitedStatesOfTara'' had in one of its plotlines Kate wanting to teach English in Japan. She wants to go to Tokyo, however, an earthquake hits the country making her change her plans. The episode aired April 11, 2011, exactly one month after the fatal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region]]. The episodes were written and produced in late 2010, and screenwriter Diablo Cody [[http://honesttoblr.tumblr.com/post/4528287684/apology-to-tara-viewers-re-tonights-episode apologized]] on Tumblr beforehand.

* Lauren Graham hurriedly had to voiceover a one-liner involving Bali for Lorelai in ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' which aired four days after the 2005 Bali bombings to instead refer to Maui, though the UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning track wasn't able to be replaced in time.

* The 2018 reboot of ''Series/{{Heathers}}'' was originally slated to premiere in March 2018, but was pushed back after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting due to a core part of the ''Heathers'' story being high school students shooting their classmates to death. The new premiere was scheduled for July 2018, but the show was cancelled after the Santa Fe High School shooting (with the showrunners currently trying to shop the series around to other networks to pick it up), with the Paramount Network president of development stating that "the combination of a high school show with these very dark moments didn't feel right" in the current climate. Even after Paramount decided to air it in a five-night event with [[{{Bowdlerise}} some of the violence edited out]], episodes were pulled ''again'' after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue (as they depicted active-shooter training at the high school) and the series finale was edited down to remove the school being blown up for the airing (though the unedited version was shown on HBO overseas).

* ''[[Series/{{POV}} P.O.V.]]'': A damaging controversy over explicit content in ''Tongues Untied'', a documentary about what it's like to be black and gay which had been broadcast during the 1991 season, caused PBS to pull a scheduled national broadcast of ''Stop the Church'', a documentary about an AIDS protest critical of the Catholic Church, which was supposed to be shown as part of ''P.O.V.'' on August 27. The documentary would ultimately be shown by individual stations the next month.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "[[Recap/CastleS5E22Still Still]]", in which the characters have to disarm a bomb in order to save Beckett, was [[http://tvline.com/2013/04/17/castle-still-episode-delayed-boston-marathon-attack/ postponed]] so that it would air two weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing instead of just one week, and was never seen in the Boston area outside of areas which received the Boston ABC affiliate's sister station in New Hampshire, online, and then seven months later when it hit the rerun cycle. Unfortunately, just three days after the Boston Marathon attack, TNT inadvertently aired a rerun of the ''other'' episode that has a bomb plot, "47 Seconds." They then had to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/tnt-apology-castle-47-seconds-bomb_n_3119209.html issue an apology]] for it.

* Irish public broadcaster Creator/{{RTE}} aired a sitcom called ''The English Class'' about a group of recently-arrived immigrants attending a night school class to improve their English. In one episode, when a woman misses class, the teacher later announces that she was murdered and dumped next to a railway line (all PlayedForLaughs). This had a lot of similarities to the case of a Swiss student recently murdered in Galway, and provoked a large number of complaints about its poor taste.

* Irish public broadcaster RTE aired a sitcom called ''The English Class'' about a group of recently-arrived immigrants attending a night school class to improve their English. In one episode, when a woman misses class, the teacher later announces that she was murdered and dumped next to a railway line (all PlayedForLaughs). This had a lot of similarities to the case of a Swiss student recently murdered in Galway, and provoked a large number of complaints about its poor taste.

* An episode of the eighth celebrity series of ''Series/{{TheChase|GameShow}}'' was not aired by Creator/{{ITV}} due to it containing a question about ''Series/TheJeremyKyleShow''.

* An episode of the eighth celebrity series of ''Series/TheChaseGameShow'' was not aired by Creator/{{ITV}} due to it containing a question about''Series/TheJeremyKyleShow''.

* A celebrity series of British reality competition ''Race Across the World'' was pushed back by a week due to a deadly earthquake in Morocco. The route for this series began there.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]] (Series 2) features a school being blown up in order to destroy the aliens inside it. This episode was taken off the air in Australia after a similar event involving a student rebel detonating a bomb in a class room killing 5 students happened. The fact that the rebel was called "Ken" didn't help due to this line being featured in the episode: "Kenny blew up the school! It was Kenny!" (whereupon the happy students cheer...)

** Regarding the fan live watches linked to the Doctor Who Lockdown event during the COVID-19 pandemic, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] were to be screened June 6th, 2020 as the finale of the event but the UnfortunateImplications of running a story involving a black companion being shot and mutilated at a time when the top international headline was worldwide Black Lives Matter/police brutality protests (especially given that fans were encouraged to live-tweet reactions on Twitter during these screenings) [[https://twitter.com/Emily_Rosina/status/1268270120981446665 led to it being cancelled]]. The day it would have ran the original short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJ0OU6Odh4 "The Best of Days"]], a canon epilogue to the story written by Creator/StevenMoffat and featuring [[spoiler: Bill and Nardole, voiced by their original actors]], was screened instead. Notably, it's set in 2020 and mentions both the pandemic and the protests.

** The Hallmark Channel's nightly marathons skipped the episode "The Flu" in 2020 and early 2021, presumably because three elderly ladies attending a social event despite being seriously ill wasn't as funny during the COVID-19 pandemic.
** Following a series of Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, the episode "Mixed Blessing," where Dorothy's son gets engaged to a black woman, was temporarily pulled from Creator/{{Hulu}} due to a scene where Rose and Blanche [[MistakenForRacist wear mud masks that resemble blackface in front of the fiancee's family]].

* ''Good Morning America'' and ''The View'', both on Disney-owned ABC, were set to feature extensive behind-the-scenes and grand opening coverage of [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Shanghai Disneyland]] on June 15, 2016, with Robin Roberts hosting. The night before that, however, a child wading in water at one of Walt Disney World's resort hotels (in Orlando, Florida) was snatched by an alligator. "Tragedy at Disney World" ended up being the top story on ''GMA'' the next morning as there was no hope the child would be found alive by then; he was found drowned later that day. With coverage of the disaster being a national news story for days afterward, televised Shanghai Disneyland coverage was [[http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/15/media/abc-news-disney-orlando-coverage/ indefinitely postponed]] without so much as an explanation despite all the pre-disaster advertising; even then, the network came under scrutiny for not discussing (as CBS and NBC did) the issue of why Disney beaches didn't have signs posted about the gators.

* Creator/CraigFerguson had filmed a monologue for ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' that was mostly about Batman, to be aired on the US premiere date for ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. After the mass murders at an Aurora, CO theater, the monologue was replaced with Craig, sitting at his desk, sending condolences to friends and relatives of the victims.

** Parodied in a Season 46 sketch of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' about a repeat of a (fictional) 1998 episode of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', where sections of the episode are repeatedly cut out due to either [[DeliberateValuesDissonance changing values about race]] (Creator/JeffDunham's racist puppet acts) or the celebrities involved now being known sex criminals, such as Creator/BillCosby and Jared Fogle (who is unfortunately seated right next to the underage Olsen twins). [[Music/TheSpiceGirls Baby Spice]] makes innocuous comments about these celebrities, which are replaced with cards explaining that she officially retracts these statements. By the time they get to Creator/KevinSpacey's square, the network decides to just cut the rest of the episode.
** Parodied in the 40th Anniversary special with a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketch which included a "Video Daily Double" featuring Creator/BillCosby (Creator/KenanThompson), who was facing multiple allegations of sexual assault at the time, with Creator/AlexTrebek (Creator/WillFerrell) panicking before apologizing to the audience.

* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' had an episode in the queue about a HatePlague MonsterOfTheWeek trying to start WorldWarIII by infecting everyone at a peace conference -- then UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror got rolling. The episode was pulled, and heavily edited to be about a city council meeting trying to increase energy efficiency, and aired later - ''way'' later. This means (1) there's a quest to acquire the ancient and powerful Turtle Mace some 20 episodes after it originally debuted by being used as if it had always been there, (2) apparently everyone except the first three Rangers had the day off, and (3) that is the most ethnically diverse city council ''ever.''
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'' features a major supporting character in the form of Park Warden Garcia, who was originally written as being a police sheriff, with the Parks HQ being an actual sheriff's office. However, the writing process overlapped with the height of the 2020 UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement, and it was decided that it wasn't a good time to have a cop as a prominent character, and thus the role was rewritten. [[TheArtifact This does result in some weird oddities]] as Garcia still otherwise acts and is treated like the head of police -- cops ''are'' shown to still exist in the series, and they still answer to him as if he were their superior despite being ''a park ranger''.

* ''The TNT Show'', a 12-part Creator/Channel4 SketchComedy show from 2009, was set to include a sketch about Music/MichaelJackson (specifically parodying the rumors of him hiring impersonators to show up for public appearances in his place), with the sketch being pre-recorded and then set to air on June 25th, 2009. Mere moments before it aired, the Channel 4 broadcast [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties suddenly went off the air with a "technical difficulties" card]], and it was later confirmed that they got wind of rumors of Michael Jackson's death, which would be confirmed that day. With ''The TNT Show'' only having been released to [=VoD=] for 30 days after airing, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the sketch has likely been lost forever and will remain unseen]].

** The repeat of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIRimmerworld Rimmerworld]]" was also pushed back after the Dunblane massacre and Cat's quote (when following Rimmer's escape pod), "Form an orderly queue behind the gunsight".

* The Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie ''The Bad Seed Returns'', the sequel to their [[Film/TheBadSeed2018 2018 remake]] of the [[Film/TheBadSeed1956 1956 film]], was postponed from its original planned airdate of May 30, 2022 because of the Uvalde school shooting the week before. The story of a young murderer was deemed too sensitive, and reportedly star Creator/MckennaGrace (who also co-wrote and co-produced the movie) personally requested it be pulled. The film ultimately premiered on September 5th that year.

* The Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie ''The Bad Seed Returns'', the sequel to their [[Film/TheBadSeed2018 2018 remake]] of the [[Film/TheBadSeed1956 1956 film]], was postponed from its original planned airdate of May 30, 2022 because of the Uvalde school shooting the week before. The story of a young murderer was deemed too sensitive, and reportedly star Creator/MckennaGrace (who also co-wrote and co-produced the movie) personally requested it be pulled.

* The British sitcom ''Series/AbsolutePower'' postponed an episode with a throwaway but hard-to-cut joke about an MP faking a heart attack to avoid being interviewed, after the death of prominent MP Robin Cook from a heart attack. They also postponed an episode about a member of the Bin Laden family trying to buy British Airways following the London bombings.