[nilesfunnies]Fwd: Marple is suspended over “offensive” programme

<http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/02/25/marple-is-suspended-over-offensive-programme/>

Marple has been suspended from ITV1 for four weeks, it was announced
today. The Adjudication Panel of the Standards Board for Television took
the action following a complaint from the Agatha Christie Society, which
described the series as “deeply offensive”. The complaint cited
Geraldine McEwan’s awful acting and a string of hammy guest actors.

A spokesman for ITV said the decision was disgraceful. “Millions of
people tune in to Marple every week. If they don’t want to watch it,
they can turn it off. The three members of the Adjudication Panel don’t
even have TVs.”

The chairman of the panel, Colonel Masterson Grange, said it had decided
on a ban because Geraldine McEwan had failed to apologise for her
performance.

Midsomer Murders will take the role of Flagship Sunday Night Whodunit
while Marple serves out the sentence.