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Article: Fury as child abuse satire up for award; NSPCC slams 'offensive' Channel 4 show
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- March 19, 2002
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A CHILDREN'S charity was outraged today after a controversial
satire about paedophiles was nominated for a top TV award.
The NSPCC said the Channel 4 Brass Eye special trivialised child
abuse.
It has been nominated for Best Comedy at the British Academy
Television Awards - the TV version of the Baftas.
Thousands of angry viewers jammed the station's phone lines when
the programme was aired last July.
In one scene, presenter Chris Morris brought a young boy into the
studio and asked a "paedophile" locked in stocks if he wanted to have
sex with him.
Celebrities such as rock star Phil Collins, ITN correspondent
Nicholas Owen and presenter Richard Blackwood were duped into
appearing on the ...