Jimmy Savile spoof shown on Tweenies: BBC apologises

I'm still crying over the cancellation.

The Saville problem isn't the BBC as it stands today. It is the people who ran it, work in it during that time who knew about Saville and the other immoral people in the industry and yet did nothing about it.

And let's be brutally honest here: the BBC is not the only channel that was around at that time, nor the only perpetrators of such heinous acts. We must not forget the newspapers, the music industry and big business at that time. From the 60's on all sorts of immorallity, drugs and pedo behaviour was not only tolerated, but applauded.

As we are only now getting glimpses that even those in highly respected governmental positions too were a party to such despicable immoral acts.

Time to widen the focus and bring justice and punishment to everyone involved.

Why doesn't Cameron just take away licence fee rights from the now vile BBC. After all he doesn't ask public permission for stealing from us for massive payouts to other countries, meddling in wars, robbing pensioners of their rights (unless they are already wealthy), sorting out immigration (legal or otherwise), the list is endless. The day he makes us believe he is truly for Britain I might consider voting Tory again. Till then UKIP it is. FRIGHTEN THE LIFE OUT OF BBC by withdrawing the licence fee, if you have the guts.

So, a childrens programme, obviously watched by mostly undert five year olds, (?) made in 2001, was shown featuring a character acting like Jimmy Saville? Firstly, why would the producers think that would be amusing to children, most of who would never have heard of Saville, even in 2001?

But this issue is it being rebroadcast. Like other evil men of history, Saville can't be erased. There are references in many shows to such abody will fix it, aping Saville's sshow. A show in Stewart Lee's excellent Comedy Vehicle actually has the Pope writing to Saville and a skit of Saville granting his wish. Let me put it this way, Saville was about for a long time. His face is on thousands of hours of broadcast material, and from time to time he'll be seen, much as we don't want it.

If every time that happens the BBC has to apologise then they'll need a new department just to handle it. So, lets be adult about this, hate him for who he was and what he did, but realise that accidents happen.

OK it ws a thoughtless mistake but no harm has been done. It just demonstraes the BBC's ability to shoot itself in the foot time and again.

If any one thinks Saville got away with everything by mere chance or by accidental failings of all the services involved over 5 decades, they are very naive to say the least.

What we have here is a glimpse of what the perverts with money and connections can get away with. It has been said that as well as being a kiddy fiddler, he was also a procurer of kids for certain very high profile politicians and a very very high level family.

I can't believe this actually made the front page of a major tabloid. Yes, it's an embarrassing PR gaffe, but it's hardly the end of the world. It's not as if they've repeated the tribute programme to Savile (which still got made despite 'concerns' within the BBC).

The BBC should stop showing animals killing each other to eat, having sex to keep thier species going or anything else that could be mistaken for normality as kiddies will get the impression that animals do not shop at Aldis.

Some people clearly have too much time on their hands, moaning and complaining about a character in a kids programme, after all it's not like it was the real Jimmy Savile. Not only that when this episode was made he was still a hero in a lot of peoples eyes.

How could anyone possibly know the content of all the archived programmes held by the BBC or any other radio or TV company? It's about time some complainers got real and worried about things more worthy of concern. Yet another storm in a teacup blown out of all proportion by nitpickers.
I often wonder how many of these people, quick to complain, would be better looking at the quality of their own performance in life.