BBC4 "daren't" show DLT or Jimmy Savile TOTP for fear of bad press this would stoke up from Murdoch's scum.
Yet Challenge TV - owned by Sky - is perfectly happy to show BBC-produced "Big Breaks" starring Jim Davidson.

There is something very very wrong here.

The lack of backbone at the BBC is extraordinary. One wonders, since the DG promised me I'd never be dropped from a TOTP reshowing again, what the official BBC line now is... they can screen me (a wrongly convicted Vile Pervert) but not Savile or DLT (both innocent until or unless proven otherwise).

JK2006 wrote:
The lack of backbone at the BBC is extraordinary.

Indeed.
Shouldn't the world's leading broadcasting authority be showing some leadership - not proving that they kow-tow to anyone who threatens to shout at them?

Well done Challenge TV! And it's free too.

Yeah the BBC certainly don't have any balls. Similar story for Radio. Freddie Starr's 1974 hit "It's You" was unsurprisingly missed on both Smooth Radio's Double Classic Top 20 show & also AgeUK's "Classic Countdown". With one Paul Burnett saying "Number 9, well we're not playing THAT".

Rather ridiculous. Kind of, if anyone ever hears a Freddie Starr, Gary Glitter, or JK record they will die of shock.

I die of shock, when the DJs in question, seem to walllow in it, when they say "The Double G" was at #2 or at #9 Jonathan King. They make an unneeded big thing of not playing them. Highly unessacerily. I make a pledge, to complain when they don't play them. People should do the same, with Top Of The Pops. Complain, every time it happens.

Watch are also showing repeats of the Bill which star Andrew Lancel.

Yet Jim Davidson, Freddie Starr, Andrew Lancel and DLT are all still innocent till proven guilty got a feeling they all be sent down.

I wonder if ITV will show archive clips or repeats of Coronation Street with Micheal Le veil ?

Well, I see Mark Williams-Thomas' ITV colleague & friend - star of both Benidorm & lunchtime nest of vipers Loose Women - has withdrawn her Yewtree statement against his Exposure 'Star Witness' Wilfred De'Ath. There won't be any pursual against the convicted fraudster/star character witness now. Apparently she is also good friends and an (off the record) supporter of former Corrie colleague Michael Le Vell.
Isn't that a tangled web?