Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin

What on earth is Generally accepted standards
EG:
BBC News
30/04/2009
BBC1
Generally Accepted Standards

Funnily enough I captured that very junction. Nothing untoward in regards to the trailers shown so I'm guessing someone took offence to the CA's use of 'fairy godmother' to describe John Barrowman?

Here's the ident leading into Tonight's the Night.

New bulletin out today...
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb135/Issue135.pdf

Nothing too interesting this time around though.

Well apart from some dangerous face stapling in Sweden!

Misleading Election Broadcasts. Who would have thought such a thing?
Where was the violence on the Dominos sponsor bumpers for Britain's Got Talent? And where was the offensive language on the coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix?
Dangerous Behaviour on Police Stop!. Hmm, I thought that was the whole point of the programme, myself.
Violence on The Simpsons, again. Should be obvious 20 years down the line that everybody in Springfield turns every event into a riot.

I imagine it was Eddie Jordan saying "After the bollocking we gave him last week". I was a tad surprised to hear it... even more so when there wasn't an apology!

I find that I sometimes watch TV and try to spot things that will be in the next Ofcom Bulletin. I thought of Ofcom when I heard Eddie Jordon say 'bollocking'. I also thought of them recently when ITV1 and 2 showed a Paul Potts advert during a break in Britain's Got Talent which featured the voices of Ant and/or Dec. I wonder if that will be mentioned in the next one.

I remember an incident on coverage of a Formula 1 race a few years back when ITV1 was covering the event, there was a mini-presentation event sort of thing on the grid for reasons that I don't remember and are arbitrary anyway. One driver (I forget who) was missing from the charade and when Martin Brundle caught up with him on the gridwalk, he asked the driver why he wasn't at the mini-event. The driver's response was "I was having a ****."

For a while I thought I'd imagined this as it was never flagged up in an Ofcom bulletin. Then lo and behold, it's on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HHUkHbgAtM

Ofcom Bulletin 136, a fat entry today running at 84 pages:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb136/Issue136.pdf

Other Programmes Not in Breach/Resolved Up to 16 June 2009 strange entries of the fortnight:

Substance abuse on Britain's Got More Talent.
54 complaints about Britain's Got Talent, 32 of which is "use of Premium Rate numbers" and standards about the Sunday Semi-final. 20 complaints about voting on the final.
Dangerous Behaviour on the ITV3 daytime sponsor bumpers.
Sex/Nudity on the EPG entries for Television X.
Live FA Cup Final 30/05/2009 ITV1 Unconscious influence/hypnosis/subliminal. Any clues?
Dangerous Behaviour on Newsround.
Animal Welfare on The Inbetweeners. That'll be the punching the fish scene, no doubt.
Animal Welfare on The Simpsons. It's a bloody cartoon, it's not real!
Somebody's really got it in for the Domino sponsor bumpers on <somewhere>'s Got Talent. And the usual raft of complaints about Big Brother.

The Paul O'Grady Show item is an amusing read, with them quoting what Paul said. I'm not surprised at this complaint though, I did find the item a bit strange when I watched it.

Yet all the book plugs get through OK.

What is concerning there is they make a point of how Paul went off-script. Next thing we know presenters will be banned from ad-libbing.

The latest OFCOM bulletin is out...
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb137/Issue137.pdf

Jonathan Ross found not in breach regarding the Hannah Montana remark.

Others not in breach...
- Horne & Corden (17/06/2009): Generally Accepted Standards
...I'll let you make your own jokes regarding the above.