A WB-affiliated station in Washington, DC has been hit with a fine from America's Federal Communications Commission because it aired scenes in an episode of The Surreal Life 2 that the regulator says were "indecent."

No nudity was present in the pool party scenes, but the FCC felt that "approximately 20 pixilated (sic) views of various female guests’ nude breasts," along with some sexual banter, were sufficiently racy because they aired before a 10pm watershed as to warrant slapping the station with a $27,500 fine.

The wider WB network escaped a fine because the one complaint received by the FCC regarding the programme referred only to a single station.