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Comedy Deception
The ITV company handling the phone voting for the British
Comedy Awards could be fined more than £100,000 by regulator Ofcom following
the discovery of a new deception over the show's People's Choice award, it
has been reported today.
Ofcom is understood to have discovered that in addition to viewers being
misled in 2005, when Ant and Dec were wrongly given the People's Choice
award, there were problems with the same category at the British Comedy
Awards in 2004.
Viewers watching the ceremony in December 2004 were still encouraged to vote
after the award had actually been awarded to Little Britain stars Matt Lucas
and David Walliams.
Because the 2004 ceremony was not aired live - but shown "as live" with a
delay - audiences were still voting on premium-rate lines after the phones
should have been closed.
In 2004, the People's Choice award was a battle between Little Britain, Ant
and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Jonathan Ross's BBC One chatshow.
It is not known how close the voting was between the three shows.
However, it is understood that just under £5,000 was wrongly taken from
viewers and that the voting was not as close as it was in 2005, when Ant and
Dec were said to have narrowly beaten comedian Catherine Tate.
19:54
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Olympics Closing
Ceremony
Television viewers around the world will see David Beckham at
the Olympics closing ceremony, arriving on a red double decker to mark
Beijing's handover to London 2012.
Beckham will be joined by Leona Lewis, who was born in Hackney, east London,
near to where the next games will take place, and London mayor Boris
Johnson.
Leona is said to be singing with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page for the event,
screened live to 150 million people.
11:40
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15 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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James Whale
Takes Legal Action
Former TalkSport presenter James Whale said he had been
"reluctantly forced" into legal action against the station after his sacking
three months ago.
Whale was axed from his late night phone-in show on TalkSport in May for
urging listeners to vote for Boris Johnson in the London mayoral election.
TalkSport management said he had breached broadcasting regulations,
describing it as a "gross error of judgment".
Now Whale has lodged two separate complaints at an unfair dismissal tribunal
and at London's High Court.
Whale, who worked at TalkSport for 13 years, has previously complained that
he has still not had the opportunity to listen to the broadcast on March 20
over which he was fired.
UTV-owned TalkSport conducted an internal investigation. Media regulator
Ofcom, which received a number of complaints following the programme, is yet
to rule on the incident.
00:10
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15 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Ronnie Corbett Profile
Comedian Ronnie Corbett is to be profiled by ITV’s The South
Bank Show, in a programme featuring archive footage from his career.
Called The One Ronnie, it promises to provide a “true insight
into the delightful world” of the performer, with the show’s camera crew
given unique access to follow him and his wife Anne as they go about their
lives.
It will also feature Corbett talking about contemporary comedy and
discussing why he is still in demand to work with younger comedians.
Contributors include David Frost and Michael Palin.
The programme will be broadcast on October 5.
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