Sex And The City lands Comedy Central in trouble

Comedy Central has been rapped for dropping the F-bomb at teatime, in an episode of Sex And The City.

Watchdogs at Ofcom ruled that the channel broke broadcasting rules for airing an episode at 6.10pm on Comedy Central Extra in June.

One viewer complained about he bad language in the show, which included four instances of the word ‘fuck’.

Comedy Central blamed a ‘technical issue’ which caused the original post-watershed version to be loaded onto their servers for transmission instead of an edited pre-watershed version.

In a ruling published today, the regulators said: ‘Ofcom noted that the wrong episode was transmitted by mistake and that the licensee has taken various measures to prevent this problem recurring’ – but still censured the broadcaster.

Ofcom also revealed that it received 13 complaints about Channel 4’s new sitcom London Irish, concerning bad language and racial offence - but decided they did not require full investigation.

Published: 23 Oct 2013