ITV have apparently dropped their broadcast of the 2007 British Comedy Awards, after finding yet more irregularities with telephone voting. Last year’s awards urged viewers to carry on voting for the People’s Choice awards, despite the fact that the last 30 minutes of the show wasn’t shown live, and lines for the vote had already closed. Honestly, what next? Is nothing sacred? You’ll probably find trouble with Blue Peter or something… Oh.

But the awards absolutely MUST get back on the television. They’re one of the funniest televised nights of the year as all the star guests sit in the audience getting really rather sozzled, leading to completely unpredictable jokes and speeches. Heck, even if Channel 5 picks it up, I’d still watch it.

And clearly the moral of this phone voting scandal saga is: don’t take part in any TV phone voting EVER, apart from maybe the Eurovision Song Contest which is of course highly reputable and deserves to have a very high number of phone voters across the continent. That’s what I do, anyway.