Children hear and see worse from their own peers and family than they do from this show. If parents disagree with what is on the show it is up to them to stop their children from watching it not the BBC to censor it. Since the show is shown before the watershed and the BBC have not aired any apologies as they would have been made to had complaints been upheld by Ofcom so there appears to be not general exception to the content.

The BBC is ruled by a charter which expects standards to be upheld, subsequently, they are responsible for the level of content broadcast at certain times of the day. Live television is and always will be a dodgy area. However that said, those people involved in live broadcasts are normally savvy enough to realise that comments and actions cannot be edited out to save face. The BBC has been inundated with complaints about the conduct of the judges, which they are playing down as it is all the sake of charity. Children in Need is about Children, that is why it is scheduled at the time it is, it is supposed to be family viewing. Its alll very well saying stop your children from watching it, the show as I have said is live, you don't expect that sort of thing to come out - talk about shutting stable door after the horse has bolted. Maybe the best solution is to put in the audio time delay like they have done for Big Brother so there is a chance for a bleep to be inserted or even sound lost temporarily. (These things are possible - I should know, I'm married to the Head of Broadcast Engineering)

Wrists will be slapped, maybe behind closed doors and nothing more said in orer to save face, however I expect something will be tossed casually into the conversation.
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Len usually appears on ITT with his master class and has been conspicuous by his absence. I am sure that with the deal that was made about all this, they could have got at least 1 more judge than Craig.

What is Arlene doing with the Sound of Music?? and as for Len and Bruno not justifying themselves i thought they had on saturday night.

And as for Bruno's "bad behaviour" all he said was one little swear word, like the kids today haven't heard a hell of a lot worse!

People seriously need to loosen up! Its only a tv show, if you dont want ur kids exposed to Arlene's sexual comments then dont let them watch the show! Simple as! Dont spoil it for the majority of us by complaining to the BBC and trying to get them to stop it!

I believe Arlene is choreographing the show, and it starts soon (within a couple of weeks) so she's probably busy with last-minute things.

And also, there were about five apologies after Bruno realised what he'd said, and he's been careful since so I agree that I don't see the big deal.

Much as he irritates the c**p out of me, I have to agree..... it was obviously just a slip of the tongue whereas Arlene's postmenopausal sleaziness is way out of order