Big Brother

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Evil Face to win!

I think we've found this year's winner already.

Celebrity Big Brother will have to broadcast a series of on-air apologies for the Shilpa Shetty race row affair, Sky sources have learned.
Ofcom will say producers Endemol breached the TV watchdog's code of conduct.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1267212,00.html

Also...

There's going to be different presenters for Big Mouth, including Chris Moyles and Peaches Geldof...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007230820,00.html

According to News 24, the apologies will have to air before the first show, the reversion and the first eviction.

Could Ofcom have annouced this at a better time for Channel 4? Just as the 'racism row' was being forgotten, its back in the news thanks to Ofcom. Its all great publicity for the new series.

It seems odd that Ofcom want Channel 4 to publish a transcript of conversions that were never broadcast though. What has non-broadcast material got to do with the broadcasting regulartor?

The question is will Andy Duncan remain in office after this?

I dont see no reason why anyone should resign. It gets on my nerves when news presenters ask this, not just in this case but in other cases over something so trivial.

If anything the bosses did us all a favour showing the stuff on BB because it has destroyed Jade.

I quite agree but the political pressure may be too much. Channel 4 are begging for funding from the government and trying to avoid being privatised in the process. Its political interference but this governmet doesn't care - not while it has Ofcom to do its dirty work.

Full transcript of footage which was not shown :
http://insidebigbrother.net/article/bb672.html

I'm with Channel 4 on this - how come the broadcaster and producer have to apologise, when it was the actual humans in the house who spouted the racism? Danielle Lloyd, Jo O'Meara and Jade Goody should be the ones reading out the on-air apologies.

OFCOM are quite happy to hold a programme to account on the basis of just one complaint, but don't seem to have the balls when 50,000 complaints are in the wrong!


I'm all slightly confused by this - it seems C4 are being forced to apologise for something they never broadcaster - and I question whether that something is actually racist at all. Certainly far more racist talk was used in the discussion of the fallout.


At least C4's own review seems to have been proactive and looking for genuine ways to improve the situation, not somewhere to pin-point blame.


And the best news of all - the possible return of Right to Reply. It's been much missed in recent years!

Unless im mistaken - they would have been wrapped by Ofcom for showing it, but can still be told off for not showing it?