📄Rating Guidelines

G - General

The General Audiences (G) rating is the lowest rating in the PRS. It encompasses audiences from all ages from young children and above.

Because of the inclusion of young children, content under the G rating must be strictly SFW.

G-rated programmes may include any of the following, which is not exhaustive:

  1. No violence

  2. Friendly horror

    • Non-threatening horror, like horror with humorous elements.

  3. No swearing

    • Light family alternatives allowed (e.g. “holy macaroni”)

  4. Non-sexual love

    • Brief displays of affection (e.g. kissing)

  5. No sexual content

    • No depictions of sex or explicit nudity

    • No suggestive language

  6. No substance consumption

    • No drugs

    • No alcohol

    • No smoking, including tobacco and vaping

PG - Parental Guidance

The Parental Guidance (PG) rating is the second rating in the PRS, also encompassing audiences from young children and above.

However, this rating indicates content that may not be suitable for pre-teenage children and encourages parental accompaniment.

PG-rated programmes may include any of the following, which is not exhaustive:

  1. Mature themes

    • Marital subjects, such as divorce

    • Political themes

    • Use of alcohol and/or tobacco

  2. Mild to moderate violence

    • Violence involving fantasy situations and characters. (e.g. a character is unharmed after getting hit. They sustain bloodless wounds)

    • Depictions that may contain heavy fighting and/or light blood and gore

  3. Mild to moderate horror

    • Non-detailed depictions of disturbing scenes

  4. Mild to moderate language

    • Use of mild coarse language such as "shit", "bitch" and "asshole".

    • Infrequent use of coarse language, such as the expletive “fuck”.

  5. Mildly sexual love

    • Displays of affection, like caressing and kissing

  6. Mild and non-detailed sexually suggestive themes and dialogue

    • Brief suggestive hand gestures and dialogue

    • Crude humour (e.g. “bathroom” jokes)

    • Brief or partial nudity (e.g. person(s) in their undergarments)

MT - Mature Content

The Mature Content (MT) rating is the highest rating in the PRS, encompassing audiences from those aged 18 and above. This rating indicates content that contains strong NSFW content and is not suitable for young audiences.

MT will apply to all NSFW content, whether fictional, realistic, or real.

MT-rated programmes may include any of the following, which is not exhaustive:

  1. Strong violence

    • Graphic blood and gore

    • Graphic human injury and death

  2. Strong language

    • Frequent use of the expletive “fuck”.

    • Infrequent and frequent use of strong coarse language, such as “motherfucker”, “cunt”, “chee bye”, “lan jiao”, “puki mak” and “pundai”.

    • Infrequent and frequent use of strong coarse language such as "kan ni lao bu chee bye".

    • Gestures (including sign language) and depictions that relate to these vulgarities and their meanings.

  3. Strong horror

    • Detailed depictions of disturbing scenes

    • Brief depictions of repulsive horror, like cannibalism

  4. Detailed explicit material

    • Very sexually suggestive material (e.g. outright depictions of genitalia or sex, including but not limited to a picture or drawings)

    • Explicit humour

    • Complete nudity

    • Sexual and/or seductive situations

  5. Other strongly mature themes

    • Consumption or abuse of drugs

    • Borderline NSFW/SFW content (e.g. double meanings and symbolisms)

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