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It wouldn't be a TV itself, it would be an extra box you feed the TV signal into for filtering, then out to the TV itself.
This has been done previously for language filtering with hilarious results. It was called "TVGuardian", oh, almost 30 years ago now.
It translated "the Dick Van Dyke Show" to "Jerk Van Gay".
I'm friends with a family who had one of those until maybe about 10 years ago when it stopped working.
"Asshole" became "idiot".
IIRC "fuck" was skipped over entirely.
Some movies were unwatchable.
To be fair, Dick Van Dyke is ALREADY a hilarious name. Not even sure how that made it past 1950s censors who wouldn't let Ricky and Lucy sleep in the same bed, or Barbra Eden show her belly button.
Tell that to Johnny Felatio.
Here is a video (24:27) by Technology Connections talking about the TV Guardian. There's also this video (20:59) by Ben Eater, who looks at the memory chip on the device to figure out how it works. It's pretty neat, and I recommend both videos if you have some spare time.