The TV Parental Guidelines Are Broken. Here's My Reasoning.

WE INTERRUPT THE PIXAR REVIEW SERIES FOR AN EDITORIAL! TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, and TV-MA. These are familiar if you've ever watched television or streamed TV shows on your favorite service. But these ratings can sometimes be misleading and/or broken. This is an editorial about the cons of the TV Parental Guidelines system.

First, the similarities and differences to the MPA rating system. In a PG-13 movie, you can use the F-word once, in a non-sexual context, e.g. "You're f'ing awesome". In most cases, if you use more than one, it's an automatic R rating.

TV-14 is similar to a PG-13, but the F word rule doesn't exist. One F-word automatically rates a show TV-MA. 

Second, commercials that display a collection of shows that each contain a different rating always shows the rating for the highest age-rated show. So if there was a Paramount+ commercial featuring clips from SpongeBob, South Park, Beavis & Butthead, Star Trek: TOS, and the Paw Patrol pups, it would say TV-MA in the corner, solely due to South Park's inclusion. Which is confusing since SpongeBob is TV-Y7, Beavis & Butthead is TV-14, TOS is TV-G, and Paw Patrol is TV-Y. I think that a "TV-Y to TV-MA" ranged rating would work, similar to how the ESRB has ranged rating symbols for reveal presentations and compilation collections.

The reason why I posted this was because of a BritBox commercial that showed a collection of their dramas, and the TV-MA logo was in the corner for the WHOLE 30 SECONDS. And it showed programs that, in standalone commercials, would be rated TV-14.