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A legally enforceable cinema-style classification system is to be introduced for video games in an effort to keep children from playing damaging games unsuitable for their age, the Guardian has learned. Under the proposals, it would be illegal for shops to sell classified games to a child below the recommended age.

At present only games showing sex or "gross" violence to humans or animals require age limits. That leaves up to 90% of games on the market , many of which portray weapons, martial arts and extreme combat, free from statutory labelling.

Ministers are also expected to advise parents to keep computers and games consoles away from children's bedrooms as much as possible, and ask them to play games in living rooms or kitchens facing outward so carers can see what is being played.
(...)Hugo Swire, a former shadow culture secretary, has suggested that the default setting for internet content would be for children, with a password or pin needed for unfiltered material.

Car chases, kung-fu and comedy come together in the wonderfully warped world of Phoo Action – an offbeat 60-minute drama special for BBC Three.

• Life - professormass is the cat what hepped me to this series, and I thank him. A beat cop who was framed and spent 12 years in prison returns to work as a detective, equipped with a tweaked spiritual outlook, an affection for fresh fruit, and an undisclosed settlement which is so large as to make people question his motivation for a return to work. The actor playing the lead, Damian Lewis, is fantastic at projecting at turns childlike enthusiasm, trained curiosity, and utter menace.
  
• Burn Notice - Another tale of a security professional who's been done wrong. Originally I'd planned to hate this show, since it's elevator pitch sounds suspiciously like Warren Ellis' comic Desolation Jones. Instead, this show is sort of Magnum P.I. meets MacGyver, or maybe the A-Team, but with a marginally reptilian, dysfunctional spy as the lead character, Gabrielle Anwar as his sociopathically violent ex-girlfriend, and Bruce Campbell as his mouthy-but-charismatic pal. The series ostensibly has an ongoing arc, but the portion devoted to it is crammed into less than the last minute of each episode. Someone could make (and probably has made) a YouTube video telling the whole backstory over the course of 8 minutes. Even so, it's good natured fun that would make a neat RPG.
• Bionic Woman - As noted earlier, after the "by the guys who brought you BSG" buildup, this show's pretty much a disappointment.
  

Media: To Kill A (Possible) Predator?:
On a fall day in 2006, a small-town Texas county prosecutor named Bill Conradt raised a loaded Browning .380 handgun to his temple, pulled the trigger, and ended his life at 56 years. Before him stood a SWAT team from a local police department that had just barged into his home after he did not answer several knocks at his door. Outside the home, film crews from NBC Dateline's controversial To Catch A Predator program were waiting, hoping to get the arrest on tape and allow host Chris Hansen the chance to grill Conradt about explicit online chats he is said to have had with a decoy posing as a teenage boy. Instead they soon found out that Conradt had taken his own life. There would be no chance to grill him. [full article]