There’s recently been a good deal of debate about the rights and wrongs of swearing and violence on TV, so we thought we’d take a look at these issues and ask your opinion on the rights and wrongs of it.

F-ing chefs

Let’s start with the issue of swearing and of course, one for whom swearing is virtually a trademark is Gordon Ramsay, who even has a show entitled, The F Word.

Gordon’s made a niche for himself in the over-populated world of TV chefs because of his constant use of the F word… but is it a bad thing?

Comedian Frank Skinner recently commented to The Sun that TV chefs swear in order to look “more manly” because they do “women’s work”. Obviously, Frank meant this in a tongue-in-cheek way, but perhaps he’s not so far off the mark.

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Kelly Osbourne has admitted to suffering from serious anxiety since accepting the role of Mama Morton in a West End production of Chicago.

“I’m absolutely bricking it because the only theatre I have ever done before this was my school play - and I was a windmill!” Kelly told The Sun newspaper.

She added: “The biggest problem I have is everyone who has seen the film now thinks Mama Morton is a big black woman because Queen Latifah played her.”

I don’t mean to be alarmist, but there’s been an increasing number of stories in the media about viewers being defrauded by our largest television stations. Whether it’s phone voting scandals, television quizzes where the production assistants phone in and win or faking programmes by bending reality to fit an editorial angle.

We’ve had the Queen made to look like a stroppy diva by the BBC (off with their heads!) and now ITV has admitted to falsifying an Alzheimer patient’s death when the man died several days earlier. Read more & comment »