China’s media regulators have lifted a long-standing ban on the production and prime-time broadcast of television dramas featuring high-level corruption, clearing the way for harder-hitting content not seen since 2004. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (formerly called SARFT) recommended that anti-corruption dramas not be shown in prime-time to “protect teenagers.” Fan Ziwen, Vice Director of the Film and Television Center under the China’s prosecutor’s office told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper that the rules against such plot-lines in TV always been a recommendation and never an outright ban. Li Jingsheng, head of SAPPRFT’s TV series unit, told Fan Ziwen that the ban was on dramas which depicted corruption without a depiction of anti-corruption efforts.