The reason for my delight about this is that, under current DG LordHallHall, no show was allowed to feature any of my tracks (hits or flops) or me (except news bulletins). This reversed the decision of former DG Mark Thompson who felt such Stalinist revision of history was wrong and decreed in 2011 that my music could and should be played on the BBC - ditto any old or new TV appearances. All that changed because of the Jimmy Savile fiasco when the False Allegations Industry kicked in and the censorship that stopped entire shows such as Top of the Pops being broadcast took over. Spineless Tony Hall, inheriting the DG mantle and being an old News hack knowing how powerful media is, reversed the previous position as well as bowing to any crackpot media crusade such as forcing producers to book on gender not talent and agreeing that a lousy presenter doing a bad job on a tiny specialist show should get equal pay with others doing better jobs on more important shows. Hall was well aware that the agenda of all the commercial media outlets, understandably, was to destroy the BBC who, thanks to licence fee, get the benefit of not having to obey big corporation executives, media moguls or politicians. Such media organisations, again understandably, hated the advantage such integrity and honesty gave to the BBC.
So for ten years I've been a NO GO area for the BBC - infuriating many who wanted to play my hits (don't expect Everyone's Gone To The Moon on Pick of the Pops if it was in the 1965 Top Three) and - especially at this time when repeats are saving the BBC (unable to make new TV shows featuring more than one person self distanced) - no high profile slots for such repeats as Entertainment USA (9 million viewers on BBC2 in the 1980s).
Tim Davie, incoming DG, seemed like a pretty decent and brave guy from my investigation. So I wrote to him on this. His reply gives me hope. Personally I'd love to see DLT hosted shows repeated. Or to hear Gary Glitter's superb 1970s smashes on radio.
They got rid of Stalin. Perhaps now we can see the UK return to honest broadcasting.
Mind you, don't be surprised if Weinstein produced films get buried. Bang goes The King's Speech.
Ironic, eh, Alanis?

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I haven't seen The Joker yet (I'm very stingy with money) but doesn't the film have a Gary Glitter song; if so I wonder if the scene will edited on TV ?

The ending of Magic Christian was not shown on USA TV for many years but was uncut on Canada TV at the time.