2,500 calls were made to the regulator following the screening of The Great Escape last Sunday evening
Every call was a husband in either shock or blind panic. Colin Jones is a prime example “Sunday is a day of rest, so a few pints at lunchtime, a late roast beef dinner with some wine, and a kip is the norm. But to wake up seeing Steve McQueen vaulting the barbed wire fences…. I was in a daze, was it Boxing Day? True I normally fall asleep when it’s on, but Im comfortable with that, after a turkey. But a Sunday mid-evening film, far too early
I’m angry on two counts, breaking tradition early and then the realisation that the whole Christmas debacle isn’t over, and the horror of Christmas shopping, visiting the old folks and screaming kids is still yet to come. Channel5 have a lot to answer for, my nerves are shot”
Faced with the volume of complaints, Channel5 were unrepentant merely “pleased with the increase in Sunday viewing figures.”