Catherine Tate

Channel TV calls for police action on awards scandal

2-Oct-2009 | By Kate McMahon

Channel TV has called for a criminal investigation into the British Comedy Awards phone-in scandal, after members of the TV production team “deliberately” changed the 2005 People’s Choice Awards from Catherine Tate to Ant and Dec.

Ant and Dec

Channel fined £80,000 over Comedy Awards phone-in scandal

2-Oct-2009 | By Kate McMahon

Channel TV has been fined £80,000 by Ofcom for its part in the phone-in scandal that saw Ant and Dec wrongly given a 2005 British Comedy Awards.

Wife Swap cleared over baby concerns

28-Sep-2009 | By Robin Parker

Ofcom has backed the producers of Wife Swap over an episode in which a baby was shown living in a dirty flat and eating chips.

Sky censured for HD cross-promotions

14-Sep-2009 | By Robert Shepherd

BSkyB has been rapped by Ofcom for misleading cross-promotions with regards to its HD service.

Jeremy Kyle

Kyle show rapped over c-word exchange

14-Sep-2009 | By Robin Parker

Ofcom has censured ITV for including the c-word in an edition of daytime talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show.

X Factor

Channel TV slams ITV compliance move

11-Sep-2009 | By Kate McMahon

Channel TV has criticised ITV’s decision to bring in a “double compliance” system, with chairman Mick Desmond claiming the broadcaster is taking a “cynical advantage” of Ofcom’s decision to increase the network’s fines for breaches of the broadcasting code.

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