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Awards shows wary after incident at BAFTAs


Taking their cue from an ugly and embarrassing incident at the British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), where an audience member shouted a racial slur, producers of several upcoming media awards shows are taking extra precautions to avoid a repeat at their events.


John Amos, a producer for the Skinhead FilmFest, said, ‘As we are always conscious of our image, we will be taking all necessary measures to ensure an incident-free, family-friendly show. Security will be tighter than usual.’


The Independent Documentary Film Awards is aware they face special challenges this year. Their Press Officer said, ‘We have films up for awards about serial exhibitionists, and a first-person POV biopic about compulsive masturbation. We don’t want to detract from the dignity of the ceremony with any untoward behaviour, so for the first time we are considering not having a live audience. Or live presenters or acceptors.’


Asked for a comment about precautions they are taking to avoid possible racist comments during their 2026 Film Hoodie Awards Show, a spokesman for the Ku Klux Klan said they would keep in place their ‘usual standards and practices while defending free speech.’


A spokesman for the neo-Nazi media awards show, The Reich Stuff, said they did not plan any additional security measures. ‘Our crowds always know how to behave themselves when representing their heritage,’ the spokesman said. ‘Good breeding always shows out.’


The BBC said they were reviewing their risk management protocols and were still deciding whether they would air these shows live or on a five second, five minute or five day delay.



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BBC to shed one-third of its name in cost-cutting frenzy


Faced with a soaring budget deficit over the next two years, the British Broadcasting Corporation is to change its name to the "British Corporation".


"In today's climate," said a corporate spokes-vacuum, "making TV and radio programmes is beyond our financial scope. However, we will maintain a fully-funded Director-General's Office and Governors' Board, as well as extravagent personnel, catering and accountancy units. We will be showcasing all that is best about UK corporate life.


"Extra managers will be recruited to oversee the complex task of making thousands of broadcasters redundant and scheduling timelines for future mass redundancies.


"Viewers will still be able to watch our exciting transmission test card, featuring a girl and her weird clown toy playing noughts and crosses, and they will be expected to pay the full licence fee for the privilege.


"What they will be spared, of course, is the risk of watching any more programmes featuring Jeremy Beadle on our channels ever again."



Careless Whisper FM


Smooth FM will change its name and move to broadcasting George Michael's Careless Whisper all day long, on a loop. The track has topped a listener poll for the eighth year in a row.


A spokesman said, 'Okay, we give up! If that's all you want, then that's fine. There will still be plenty of variety on the radio station, as we have several different advertisers and we will still be using our famous automated AI deejay to introduce the track, give traffic updates, and remind listeners to keep breathing. We will occasionally play a live version of the track, just to keep things fresh, and we will continue to run out phone in competitions, with all the prizes being George Michael merch.


'Financially, it's good move for us. We've done a deal on the broadcast rights and we won't have to pay for any other music. It's very popular with listeners, because our broadcasts are considerably less annoying than Capital Radio, as long as you don't mind George Michael...


'Romesh heard about our plans and asked if he could do some DJing for us. We said no.'



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