BBC 2 & Jerry Springer The Opera

Jerry Springer the Opera, televised tonight on BBC2, was funnier than I remember it being when I saw it last Christmas in London. It seems that everyone who can broadly be termed ridiculous is piling in with crisicism of the BBC choosing to screen the show and some 45,000 complaints have been logged. Impressive organisation for whoever is behind it. According to one, "Showing Jerry Springer - The Opera sews evil into people and scandalises Christianity." I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I'm all for the beeb screening it but I don't think that their defence - "the BBC insisted there were fewer than 300 swear words in the show" - is likely to sway many of the discontents! At this Christian calendar time of 'epiphany' it would be nice if some of the protestors had an epiphany and started doing something a little more useful.

Posted by Paul in Television Entertainment at January 9, 2005 12:24 AM | 4 Comments