2 posts tagged “scotland”
Look at this, the BBC have censored my pal Innes Smith's new radio show:
A COMEDY radio series that portrays Rolf Harris supposedly drawing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has been shelved by the BBC.
Executives pulled the prime-time series only a week before it was due to air amid "anxieties over taste and decency".
The Franz Kafka Big Band was billed as "sure to surprise even the most unshockable" by BBC Radio Scotland when the Glasgow-based troupe's second series was commissioned.
But a segment called Rolf's Blasphemous Cartoon Time, in which the television favourite is portrayed as drawing images of deities such as the Prophet Muhammad and Buddha, worried BBC officials.
The decision to pull the series comes in the wake of controversy over cartoons of Muhammad being published in a Danish newspaper which sparked riots and protests around the world earlier this year.
So, the BBC commissioned a show on the basis that it will be 'shocking', then took it off the air for being 'shocking'. Ridiculous.
Since I have a CD of the entire series, I intend to ceremonially listen to each episode as it doesn't air.
I've only listened to the first episode so far, and it's good, silly stuff: 9/11 with cows instead of 'planes crashing into the twin towers, the film Hoots, Mon! is a blaxploitation flick about a pimp who whores out a flock of owls, a public relations campaign by the Taliban involving jihad-themed show tunes. Ironically enough, at one point the show is interrupted by an announcer because of supposed listener complaints about blasphemy!
