"The 9pm watershed is pretty meaningless in a world where kids know how to use TV recorders and the Internet."

So do we now require broadcasting in which every programme assumes that a 5 year old may be watching, and censors its content accordingly?

"I don't think that the fact that the Daily Mail had a go at Ross and Brand would be any reason to feel that they deserve to be supported."

I agree, McGrath. I have greatly enjoyed their work in the past and will probably do so in future, but they did a dumb thing. As I said in my initial post on this thread, even if it had not been broadcast, what they did was crass and insensitive - they crossed a line. But one could also argue that the frenzy which was whipped up post-event was OTT and disproportionate. As I said, I was not in the UK at the time, and I had people texting me in disbelief about the fact that this story was on the cover of broadsheets day after day and the Prime Minister had made a statement. Imean, it's not like it was exactly a slow news week in the real world...