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Rap for TV spoof ad.

BBC's Top Gear has been rapped by broadcasting regulator regulator,
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 Ofcom for staging a scene in which a man was seen to shoot himself in the head, before the watershed watershed, elevation or divide separating the catchment area, or drainage basin, of one river system or group of river systems from another system or group of systems. The term is also often used synonymously with drainage basin. .

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 VW ad, screened in an 8pm slot, prompted 50 complaints to Ofcom that footage was too graphic for that time.

The BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
, which did not screen a warning, defended the scene, pointing to "the ludicrous and obviously comic depiction of the suicide".

But Ofcom said viewers would not have expected such a violent scene and concluded it could not be justified.

It found the images breached the broadcasting code.
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Publication:Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Date:Nov 10, 2009
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