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Big Brother tops Ofcom’s 2013 ‘most complained’ list

Big Brother has topped Ofcom’s list of most complained about shows for the second year running with its ‘Secrets & Lies’ series, while the Celebrity version has also made the top ten.

According to figures released by the media regulator yesterday, a total of 965 complaints were logged regarding this year’s civilian edition of the long-running reality show.

The majority of these concerned housemate Jemima Slade’s warning for unacceptable language after she told Gina Rio that she wouldn’t ‘go’ for black men as romantic partners, with 305 viewers suggesting that producers had unfairly portrayed Slade as racist.

Elsewhere, 244 people accused Rio of ‘bullying’ Hazel O’Sullivan, and 166 were unhappy that footage of Daley Ojuederie’s violent behaviour towards O’Sullivan was broadcast.

The boxer was removed from the house after slapping the model and clasping his hands around her neck in an incident that he later described as a ‘play fight’.

However, the overall figure was down considerably on the 2,088 complaints made over Big Brother 13 last year, which were dominated by Conor McIntyre’s threats of physical and sexual violence towards Deana Uppal.

Meanwhile, August’s twelfth Celebrity edition came in at five on the list on 438 complaints, with some viewers claiming that it had demonstrated ‘animal cruelty’ when Abz Love ran Courtney Stodden’s toy bunny through the mangle.

Other shows that charted include The X Factor in second with 734 complaints – mostly concerning a raunchy guest performance from Lady Gaga – and ITV News in third on 574 due to a report covering the tragic death of Lee Rigby that contained graphic footage.

The single most controversial incident of 2013 was Rowan Atkinson’s parody of the Archbishop of Canterbury for Comic Relief, which drew 487 complaints.

Ofcom’s ten most complained about shows of 2013 are as follows:

Big Brother 2013: Secrets & Lies (Channel 5) – 965 complaints
The X Factor 2013 (ITV) – 734
ITV News – 574
Comic Relief (BBC One) – 492
Celebrity Big Brother 12 (Channel 5) – 438
Britain’s Got Talent 2013 (ITV) – 422
Emmerdale (ITV) – 376
BBC News – 354
Downton Abbey (ITV) – 252
Coronation Street (ITV) – 225

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Big Brother top trending TV show on Google in 2013

Google has named Channel 5′s Big Brother Secrets & Lies as its fourth most searched for and its biggest trending TV show of 2013 in the UK.

The internet’s most popular search engine today released its annual ‘Zeitgeist’ list, which charts the terms that its millions of users have been looking for over the past twelve months.

In the ‘most searched’ TV shows category, Big Brother came fourth, behind juggernaut soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street – at one and three respectively – and American hit Breaking Bad, which finished second.

Big Brother did even better in the ‘trending’ TV shows category, which according to Google lists the terms that have had the largest increase in search volume over the ‘previous period’.

It topped this chart, with the latest series of Britain’s Got Talent coming second and ITV’s breakout crime drama Broadchurch in third.

Oddly, the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss – which is broadcast in the UK on cable and satellite channel Colors – came fourth, beating the likes of The X Factor and The Apprentice.

The news comes after rival company Yahoo! revealed that Big Brother was its most searched for TV show and eleventh most searched for term overall over the last twelve months.

Google UK’s most searched for TV shows of 2013 are as follows:

EastEnders
Breaking Bad
Coronation Street
Big Brother 2013
Strictly Come Dancing
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks
Daybreak
Top Gear
The Voice

Google UK’s biggest trending TV shows of 2013 are as follows:

Big Brother 2013
Britain’s Got Talent
Broadchurch
Bigg Boss 7
The White Queen
Mr Selfridge
The X Factor 2013
Under The Dome
Peaky Blinders
The Apprentice

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