1.5 Million Tune Into Brass Eye Repeat

More people tuned in to the repeat of Channel 4’s spoof Brass Eye documentary on paedophilia last night than watched it the first time around.

The repeat of the controversial satire, which was shown at 10:30pm yesterday, attracted an average audience of 1.5 million and achieved a 10.1% share of viewing. This compares with 1.3 million viewers and a 9.6% share for the first showing of the episode last July.

The brain child of Chris Morris caused a storm of controversy when it was first broadcast last summer (see Brass Eye Row Continues). The ITC branded the programme “gratuitous” and “offensive” after receiving hundreds of complaints from viewers and called for the power to adopt “new rapid response” approach to complaints (see More Power For ITC?).

Channel 4 has always defended its decision to repeat the programme (see

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