ITV have been told off again, this time for leading people to believe they were seeing the final throes of a dying man’s life. This man, Malcolm Pointon, was 66 years old and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Apparently he did not die for a few more days, which is nice, you know, for him and his family.

However, there has been outrage in the the television world as a result. I must admit at this point to not watching much ITV programming these days, so it has come as a bit of a shock to learn that snuff movies have become so popular on mainstream television.

I remember a time when you would have to search the Internet for hours and hours for this kind of thing. Now they put them on in between The Bill and News Knight with Sir Trev. At least they wait till after the watershed.

It is a good job that this deceit has come to light now, as I can only imagine the letters of complaint they would have received had they not been found out before it was shown. It would have been a bumper week for Points of View (which is still going isn’t it? I don’t watch much BBC either.)

He was not dead!! I could see his chest moving!! Perhaps you should stick a knife in just to make sure next time?

If I wanted to watch old people fall asleep I would go to a Test Match. When people die it involves copious amounts of blood and lots of screaming, everybody knows this. What is this country coming to?

This is just typical of this Labour Government. Bring back Thatcher, that’s what I say. She would have made sure he was dead, and happily have finished him off herself if he was determined to cling on. Not like these lefty namby-pamby ‘medical professionals’.

They do say there is no such thing as bad publicity, though I am sure Chris Langham’s agent would disagree. With that in mind, will you be watching next Wednesday?

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