Having made its debut earlier this summer on the increasingly popular Turkish streaming site BluTV, the show “Pavyon” ("Nightclub") takes a close look at a deep-rooted, culturally-specific and infamous type of nightlife that is particularly prominent in the capital of Ankara.

The show gets its name from a type of glitzy Turkish nightclub where the music is bombastic, booze flows freely and men pay to have attractive, heavily made-up women keep them company at their tables. Its racy and frank content is notable given legislation that went into effect last month, enabling the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) to regulate content produced by sites like BluTV and Netflix.

A number of the original series on BluTV have created significant buzz due to their original and uncompromising content. The modern classic "Behzat C," a popular cop show that aired on mainstream television between 2010 and 2013, was recently relaunched on the platform, not surprising since the show's relentless vulgar language and violence has made it persona non grata on the heavily censored and sterilized atmosphere that is mainstream television in Turkey today.

The stifling censorship on the mainstream networks has made online content increasingly popular and relevant in Turkey, a fact to which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has not turned a blind eye. BluTV's subscriber figures reached an impressive 4 million as of the beginning of this year, in no small part due to the exclusive content it offers. It was announced on Sept. 3 that BluTV and Netflix along with hundreds of other institutions had applied for licenses from RTUK, a requirement of the new regulation.