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Big Fat Quiz of the Year

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The most controversial British TV shows ever

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The BBC is under fire again – this time for its new sitcom Way To Go, which finds humour in the subject of assisted suicide. It comes hot on the heels of a tabloid fury over Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year, in which jaded drunken luvvies made tedious jokes about the Queen.

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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (3)


The Daily Mail is funnier than The Big Fat Quiz of the Year

THE Daily Mail did not enjoy Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Anyone who watches a Channel 4 panel-based comedy show pretty much deserves what they get, but the Mail was aghast:

“A primetime Channel 4 quiz in which drunken comedians made obscene jokes about the Queen has outraged viewers. The Big Fat Quiz Of 2012, which featured countless vile sexual jokes, was broadcast on Sunday only seconds after the 9pm watershed….Last night TV watchdog Ofcom confirmed it had already received complaints.”

How many?

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Posted: 4th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment