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Rabbits on BBC 1 magic program

:shock: thats alot of bunnies just watched it on iplayer
supprise supprise a friend has had email asking if she has any magic white bunnies tonight DELETE !!!
god hope i dont get any :?
 
Could someone post up the OFCOM email address to complain to please (i'm not supposed to be on tinternet at work ;) )
 
have you got the bbc and points of view ones done too? i posted their details further up this thread somewhere - pov was definitely an email address :D
 
This is shocking, I know loads of people from the RWUF wrote in and they havn't had replies earlier!

F*** the bbc and their tv license. I feel cheated that no one can even get a reply from the people we pay for them to employ.
 
Day 10

Dear Miss Garbutt

Thank you for your e-mail regarding ‘The Magicians’ broadcast on 15 January.

We appreciate that you objected to the inclusion of rabbits as part of an act during the programme.

For every trick in ‘The Magicians’ involving an animal we used the services of Amazing Animals, a company with over three decades of experience supplying domestic, exotic and wild animals to the film, TV and event industries.

Through them the rabbits were sourced from a reliable breeder and returned to him at the end of the shoot. Amazing Animals took the rabbits into stock at their premises for approximately 21 days prior to the shoot, this was to handle them and get them used to a studio environment - they have their own in-house studio to do this. This was done to avoid any stress to the animals.

They were rehearsed in groups and are quite happy to be close to each other at this age. The rabbits were not housed in the props, they were only put there for a short period of time for the purpose of the show and they were under the supervision of three of Amazing Animals' full-time, experienced handlers.

Thank you once again for taking the trouble to share your views with us.

NB This is sent from an outgoing account only which is not monitored. You cannot reply to this email address but if necessary please contact us via our webform quoting any case number we provided.

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
 
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