Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Quiz Show, Milli Vanilli, Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row, The $64,000 Question, Lou Pearlman, Quiz show scandals, Twenty One, Timbaland plagiarism controversy, Man vs. Wild, Charles Ingram, Miss Cleo, Hello Pappy scandal, Dotto, Casting couch, Aman Verma, Taylorology, Our Little Genius, AGB Nielsen Philippine TV ratings controversy, Fitts for Fight, Laromlab. Excerpt: The Russell Brand programme prank telephone calls row concerned a series of voice messages that English entertainers Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left on the answering machine of actor Andrew Sachs, which were labelled obscene by many media commentators and politicians. It followed a BBC Radio 2 broadcast of an advance-recorded episode of The Russell Brand Show on Saturday 18 October 2008. In the show, Brand and Ross left lewd messages on the voice mail of Sachs, including comments about Sachs' granddaughter. The two originally called Sachs as a guest to interview on the show, and after he failed to answer the telephone, Brand and Ross left the messages on his answering machine. After little attention, a Mail on Sunday article on 26 October 2008 about the show led to a record number of complaints and criticism of Brand, Ross and the editorial decisions of the BBC. The two presenters were criticised by a number of MPs, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Following the complaints, Ross was suspended from his positions at the BBC while both the BBC and Ofcom launched investigations. Both Brand and Lesley Douglas, Controller of Radio 2, resigned from the BBC. Ross was suspended without pay for 12 weeks on 30 October, later describing the experience as "fun." The BBC was fined 150,000 by Ofcom because of the incident. From April 2006 through to October 2008, Russell Brand presented the weekly BBC radio show The Russell Brand Show. In...