Brass Eye
- TV comedy
- Channel 4
- 1997 - 2001
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Anarchic spoof news programme fronted by Chris Morris. Also features Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, Doon Mackichan, David Cann, Barbara Durkin and more.
Press clippings Page 5
TV satire sparks watchdog review
The government has suggested that broadcasting regulations may need to be changed following the controversy about the Channel 4 spoof documentary on paedophilia.
BBC, 30th July 2001Channel 4 defends Brass Eye
Channel 4 today defended the use of children in last night's controversial Brass Eye satire about paedophiles, insisting they were all aware of what they were doing.
Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian, 27th July 2001My eyelids seemed to be glued together with tears. Brass Eye (Channel 4) was showing celebrities vast, virulently yellow pills, claiming they were a new killer drug from Czechoslovakia called cake. They looked like monstrous bath sponges or, of course, Victoria sponges.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 6th February 1997