Entertainment 07-01-2005 who: The BBC what: Receives more than 15,000 complaints over screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera where: LONDON when: This week snippet: "The film of the hit West End show, about the cult US chat show host, includes the F word 3,168 times and the C word 297 times," claims The Sun. However, the BBC news website counters this claim, saying the figure has been arrived at by adding up "every swear word sung by each member of the 27-strong chorus". Doubtless Channel 4 will be hoping for a similar furore over their forthcoming "serious scientific experiment" entitled Exorcism, due to be aired next month according to The Mirror. In other telly news, The Daily Record reported this week that Tuesday`s episode of Eastenders registered the soap`s lowest audience figures since 1999; The Independent interviews comedian Johnny Vegas about his two new series Dead Man Weds and Ideal and Steve Coogan about his forthcoming comedy series for the BBC while The Telegraph examines Desperate Housewives, the lastest US TV sensation to arrive on British TV. [... more]

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