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Bloke says 'C U Next Tuesday' on Channel 4 Racing

(May 2006)

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DA
David
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1777626,00.html posted:
Channel 4 was forced to issue three on-air apologies yesterday afternoon after a victorious trainer said "c***" twice during its live horseracing coverage from York.
The broadcaster received five complaints from viewers about the incident - but one person also called in to say that the trainer in question, Mick Easterby, should be allowed to say what he liked on TV.


I'd like to see a clip of this if anyone was recording it. It was just before 2pm according to Media Guardian.
HC
Hatton Cross
Hey guess what - the word that Easterby said yesterday, well that's normally what I call him under my breath when one of his badly trained horses doesn't win me any money....( Smile )
SO
Steven O
Just a pity It'll Be Alright on the Night has been axed - that would have been a guaranteed £250....! Laughing
AN
Andrew Founding member
I would have thought that would be even too strong for TV Naughtiest Blunders
IS
Inspector Sands
Steven O posted:
Just a pity It'll Be Alright on the Night has been axed - that would have been a guaranteed £250....! Laughing


Only if it was funny, which it doesn't sound like it was
DA
David
Inspector Sands posted:
Steven O posted:
Just a pity It'll Be Alright on the Night has been axed - that would have been a guaranteed £250....! Laughing


Only if it was funny, which it doesn't sound like it was


I don't think the clips have to be funny, I've seen It'll Be Alright on the Night feature clips of people in dramas forgeting their lines before.
SO
Steven O
davidlees posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Steven O posted:
Just a pity It'll Be Alright on the Night has been axed - that would have been a guaranteed £250....! Laughing


Only if it was funny, which it doesn't sound like it was


I don't think the clips have to be funny, I've seen It'll Be Alright on the Night feature clips of people in dramas forgeting their lines before.


The best one I remember was from Alright on the Night 11 - a vicar being interviewed when a chap on a building site next to him started working: "I'm being filmed, you daft pillock!" Denis's response - which has sadly been edited out of the revised repeats of that episode - "Bet that stopped the presses of the parish magazine".

You do wonder if attitudes have changed at all since the 1960s - back then Mrs Whitehouse lodged a complaint over the number of "bloodys" uttered by Alf Garnett in an episode of Til Death Us Do Part. In the case of the C4 Racing slip-up, this was just a slip of the tongue which had the misfortune to occur on a live broadcast. Something any do-gooders who dare complain to the authorities about this would do well to remember.

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