New Zealand broadcaster reprimanded over ‘graphic’ dolphin mating scene

Nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew one complaint to media watchdog that it should not have given the program a G, or general, classification

New Zealand's media watchdog has reprimanded public broadcaster TVNZ for not giving a higher classification to a documentary with dramatised" scenes of dolphin mating.

The nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew the ire of one viewer who successfully complained to the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). In the offending scene, a female dolphin is targeted by a pack of male dolphins that mate with her.