[JMT1985]

Say what they like on Channel 4? Really?

www.channel4.com 

Note it specifically references the fact individual contracts can contain other restrictions . Having seen such a contract, I can tell you it contains many of the things certain posters here keep saying are impossible, it contextualises why Broadcasting needs the restrictions, what areas of policy and law its designed to deal with; the risks, costs and losses involved , so thus proportionality is argued and agreed to from the outset.

Channel 4 may choose to implement a policy differentially, but they don't allow a free for all.

And not one word uttered by a host on a prerecorded show wouldn't have been agreed in advance with producers, reviewed by lawyers, senior staff of production Co and the channel commissioning team; and no live show host would do the job unless they were trusted to stick to a pre approved script. It's not a shoddy community radio station where Dave opens the mic and says what he wants.

Watch The Last Leg and see the freedom the hosts and guests are given to say what they want live - if that was the BBC it would cause uproar, on Channel 4, it usually gets ignored. This is why when Miriam Margolyes is on The Last Leg, she can be let of the leash