Ant And Dec’s Award Takeaway

May 10, 2008

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for ITV, another major revelation about ITV is made public at the same time as Ofcom finally announced its £5.675m fine against ITV; a revelation which caused Ant and Dec to hand back its 2005 People’s Choice British Comedy Award.

Basically speaking, Ant and Dec were guaranteed an award at the 2005 British Comedy Awards (at the expense of Catherine Tate) because by doing so it would allegedly also guarantee the attendance of Robbie Williams. Or something. (I still don’t properly understand this myself.)

And because the final segment of the formerly live award ceremony had been prerecorded during the news, viewers were also still voting for something which had been (wrongly) decided in advance.

I’m lost for words at this point.

Source transdiffusion.org