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.

ITV axes comedy awards over vote claims
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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