http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4152433.stmUm....yes.
Record complaints for a show which hasn't even been broadcast yet, and which the complainers wouldn't watch anyways. There was someone on the bbc news this morning from one of the complaining 'media organisations' (Mediawatch UK)...she was asked why she was bothered about a program she didn't want to watch. The answer 'because other people will see it'.
So it's yet another case of forcing censorship on people.... interestingly, said spokeswomen compared it to threats on a theatre forcing the cancellation of an allegedly anti-sikh play - as if she was condoning that sort of action. And they presumably they have so little faith in the strength of what religion they believe is being blasphemed, that they want to control everything on TV to protect their fragile little beliefs.... I mean, if you're going to be influenced by a man in a nappy calling himself Jesus
acting in a play, then whatever religion you did belief is clearly as toothless as Liam Gallagher after a night on the town.
But what really pisses me off is that there has been 20,000 complaints ( a stupid number, and probably largely fuelled by the good oile tabloid media).... if they succeed, and the programme gets pulled, it would mean that 20,000 thin-skinned moany bastards have suceeded in dictating what
54 million people can watch.
(and no, I don't intend on watching it; it's an opera and hence the lowest form of entertainment; but the principle is important)
