A Russian television series that dramatized...
The program schedule for the week of February 15-21, released on Monday, does not include any episodes of School, which was billed as "a radical series about teenagers."
Channel One confirmed that the series would not be aired next week but declined to comment further.
The 60-part fictional series by young director Valeria Gai Germanika was shot in a real Moscow school and includes large amounts of documentary-type footage. Seventeen episodes have been broadcast since it was launched on January 11.
The series showed schoolchildren openly smoking and drinking beer, harassing their classmates and snubbing teachers, and even having sex, but the state-controlled channel denied in January that it undermined President Dmitry Medvedev"s aims to improve education, which included making 2010 the Year of the Teacher.
Much of the protests against the show came from teachers, with accusations that Germanika was discrediting the profession.