ITV axes comedy awards over vote claims

ITV is to drop this year’s British Comedy Awards following the discovery of alleged phone vote irregularities.

Sat, 22 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
Anita Singh

Law firm Olswang has been called in by the British broadcaster to conduct an investigation.

The alleged voting problem happened during the 2005 awards show.

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