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BBC apologises for Savile character on Tweenies show
A repeat of The Tweenies saw the popular puppet “Max” in a Jimmy Savile fancy dress outfit pretending to be DJing on Top of the Pops.
It comes a week after a report into Savile claimed he sexually abused and raped children as young as eight over a 54-year period – including an assault at the last filming of Top of the Pops in 2006.
It comes after the BBC launched a search for a new editor of Newsnight after the programme dropped a report into Savile’s decades-long campaign of abuse.
A BBC spokeswoman said she would not confirm whether viewers had complained directly to the BBC about the programme.
She added it was “highly likely” the programme, clips of which viewers have posted on YouTube, has been repeated before Sunday’s showing.
‘A total disgrace’
Dad Mark Roberts, 42, was watching the show with his six-year-old daughter.
He said: “I think it’s completel
