SAD NEWS FOR CHURCHILL LOVERS-Churchill Show causes anger, pulled off air for being too vulgar

For the first time in so many years, that is in the entire history of the family comedy show Churchill which airs every Sunday night, had to be cut short mid-way by NTV after the episode caused outrage online.

It is believed the reason was because some comedians on the show took their jokes too far, forcing the station to cut it short after just 25 minutes of the recording that had been filmed earlier at the recently opened Two Rivers Mall.

A bicycle joke by Jasper Murume and another one by Zeddy are said to have been too explicit for family TV and when the show announced it would return after the break, it never came back on.

NTV instead aired adverts and a documentary to fill the slot on the Sunday, March 5 episode until 9 pm as Kenyans flooded social media to vent their outrage.

Moral Police, a.k.a. the Kenya Film Classification Board boss Ezekiel Mutua, and other Kenyans lashed at Churchill and his popular show for recently morphing into something other than the family comedy it was intended to be.

“A stupid, horrible prank on Churchill Show. An unfortunate idiotic and foul drill, totally in bad taste, lacking in imagination and possibly the evidence of the beginning of the end of an era. That prank, plus the meru-accent-laden village wag’s ‘dirty’ talk disguised as bicycle ride is against the Programming Code for Free-to-air radio and television services in Kenya,” the KFCB CEO said.

Adding: “This is a family show and it airs during the watershed. To try and popularize it through cheap sex talk is a breach of the law and betrayal of trust of the program’s family audiences. Any celebrity who makes money by pushing dirty content to corrupt the moral values of our children is no better than the politicians looting our country. Its impunity and it’s wrong!”

Kenyans were also not short of criticism against Churchill Show, they for once agreed with the loathed Mutua who has been accused of being too overzealous on the kind of content that should be pushed on TV and social media.

Daniel Ndambuki aka Churchill immediately took to social media to apologise for the show ending prematurely saying it was because of a technical hitch.

But many questioned the excuse asking how there was a technical hitch at the station when adverts and a documentary aired for the remainder of the time. Some even wondered who between Churchill and NTV should be aplogising for technical difficulties.