THE BBC is to start watching some of the programmes it makes before broadcasting them.
The corporation said a repeat of The Tweenies would ‘probably not’ have been screened if one of the BBC’s 23,000 employees had taken a few minutes to check if it included a pre-school children’s TV character depicting a nightmarish sex fiend.
A spokesman added: “No-one here has actually watched anything since Our Friends in the North in 1996 and we only did that because there was so much ‘buzz’.
“We’ve always thought, ‘it’s just telly – it doesn’t matter’.”
