Why C4 shouldn't worry about OFCOM!

[Brekkie]

We've not actually heard of a complaint count this time for CBB, but OFCOM's latest report highlights several complaints rejected from the first couple of weeks :

Celebrity Big Brother 16/01/2009 Channel 4
Offensive Language (2 complaints)

Celebrity Big Brother 16/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (1)

Celebrity Big Brother 13/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (2)

Celebrity Big Brother 08/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (1)

Celebrity Big Brother 04/01/2009 Channel 4
Offensive Language (1)

Celebrity Big Brother 14/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (1)

Celebrity Big Brother 05/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (1)

Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth 02/01/2009 E4
Generally Accepted Standards (2)

Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth (trailer) 16/01/2009 Channel 4
Violence (1)

Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch 02/01/2009 Channel 4
Generally Accepted Standards (1)
**** knows what there was to complain about from the launch show, though I did feel Davina's lacklustre house tour wasn't up to our generally accepted standards

There were also a handful of complaints about violence on Dead Set (all thrown out), plus one complaint of sex/nudity on Dancing on Ice! I missed that bit! (Also too much sex/nudity on Strictly and The X Factor too - again rejected!)

Note these were all complaints thrown straight out, so the outcome of more controversial areas won't be unveiled until later, but I'm sure like most complaints before hand (bar a little hic-cup in 2007) they'll be thrown out.


And for comparison, these were also rejected:
I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!
20/11/2008 ITV1 Generally Accepted Standards (4)
20/11/2008 ITV1 Use of Premium Rate Numbers (1)
29/11/2008 ITV1 Animal Welfare (4)
29/11/2008 ITV1 Use of Premium Rate Numbers (4)
29/11/2008 ITV1 Generally Accepted Standards (1)
22/11/2008 ITV1 Animal Welfare (8)
01/12/2008 ITV1 Use of Premium Rate Numbers (4)

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb126/

[Brekkie]

Also worth adding not a single complaint for BB9 was upheld by OFCOM.

[Tom]

GMTV- one complaint for sex and nudity

I must have missed the episode where Kate got pregnant live on air

[*mazedsalv**]

Its pathetic imo

[Sam!]

People are so bloody sad.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Sam!
People are so bl***y sad.

I know... the swearing compaints. WTF!!! If you dont like it why do they watch as they always give us a warning about strong language.

[Spike]

It amazes me how many complaints are there even though it doesn't seem that much
Silly people who complain should just have their TV taken away

[Brekkie]

Probably missed a couple of reports, but another one out today showing more complaints against BB rejected - and this year it really was just a handful of complaints.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb129/issue129.pdf

Celebrity Big Brother 21/01/2009 Channel 4 Offensive Language (1 complaint)
Celebrity Big Brother 21/01/2009 Channel 4 Use of Premium Rate Numbers (1)
Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth 15/01/2009 E4 Crime (incite/encourage) (1)
Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth 23/01/2009 E4 Generally Accepted Standards (1)
Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth 02/01/2009 E4 Use of Premium Rate Numbers (1)
Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother 16/01/2009 Channel 4 Violence (1)
Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother 15/01/2009 E4 Generally Accepted Standards (1)

Also an interesting piece in that report on how the "RIDE" voting system works. It's in relation to The X Factor and those people who moan it's a fix everytime a result doesn't go their way, but as it's a system used across TV, it's applicable to Big Brother too.

[*mazedsalv**]

CBB6 only had a few complaints which is good... also it got quite a few good comments after they showed the intellectual convo between Tommy and Terry and Coolio ??

[letmein]

Do these people have to go and call up people every time they have a problem. Don't people just deal with it? It's like running and telling your parents what the big bad boy did in the sandbox at school.