Watchdog M.P.s for 'family fit' viewing
- Publication: Daily Express
- Date: 1964-07-03
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- Page: 9
- Language: English
SUPPORT is mounting quickly among Tory M.P.s for the establishment of a committee to vet TV programmes and ensure they are suitable for family audiences.
Seventeen
backbenchers are backing Commons motions expressing concern at the number of programmes unsuitable for family viewing and calling for a watchdog committee. One motion signed by 15 MPA wants a committee to advise the TV companies. The sponsors include Mr. James Dance (Bromsgrove), Mr. Peter Walker (Worcester), and Sir Peter Agnew (Worcestershire South), a Church Commissioner.
'NONSENSE'
The second motion, signed by Mr. Harold Gurden (Selly Oak) and Mr. Ian Percival (Southport), suggests that the BBC. should also get such advice.
Some MPs say the committee would act in similar fashion to the Board of Film Censors.
Television programmes for children are criticised today by Mr. Edward Blishen, a lecturer at the University of York and editor of the Oxford Book of Poetry for Children.
Writing in "Where ?" Journal of the Advisory Centre for Education, he calls the B.B.C. serial Dr. Who" compulsive nonsense."
The Dickens and "Lorna Doone" serials and animal programmes are praised, but they are said to stand out as solitary summits in a mass of weak and embarrassing slapstick."
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