By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor7:00AM BST 30 Aug
John Lloyd, creator of the panel show QI, which is hosted by Stephen Fry, said executives were so terrified of causing offence that "saucy" banter was banished from the flagship channel before the watershed.
Lloyd expressed relief that the show is leaving BBC One and returning to its original home on BBC Two, even though that might lead to a drop in viewing figures.
"Sauciness is no longer allowed before 9pm anywhere on the BBC - particularly not on BBC One," said Lloyd, writing in Radio Times.
"The Commissioning, Legal, Compliance and Editorial Policy police hover over the scripts and the recordings, alert to the merest potential offence. There are blanket proscriptions, passed down from on high, which reduce everything to a bland vichyssoise that suits comedy programmes not at all.
"Heaven knows what they would have done to The Two Ronnies."
John Lloyd, creator of the panel show QI, which is hosted by Stephen Fry, said executives were so terrified of causing offence that "saucy" banter was banished from the flagship channel before the watershed.
Lloyd expressed relief that the show is leaving BBC One and returning to its original home on BBC Two, even though that might lead to a drop in viewing figures.
"Sauciness is no longer allowed before 9pm anywhere on the BBC - particularly not on BBC One," said Lloyd, writing in Radio Times.
"The Commissioning, Legal, Compliance and Editorial Policy police hover over the scripts and the recordings, alert to the merest potential offence. There are blanket proscriptions, passed down from on high, which reduce everything to a bland vichyssoise that suits comedy programmes not at all.
"Heaven knows what they would have done to The Two Ronnies."
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