“‘We are not running some kind of Pop Idol competition in which the greatest number of votes gets a programme pulled from the schedule.'” BBC television director, Jana Bennett, will make a speech later today countering the attempts of religious lobby groups in Britain and America to influence broadcasters — with large-scale email campaigns, by targetting individuals and releasing personal information — and which is expected to have a great impact on how broadcasters deal with controversies such as the Sikh play Dishonor, the cancelled cartoon Popetown, and Jerry Springer: The Opera.