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Why They Fear These Evil Games: Titchmarsh on ITV
If you live in the UK, you've probably noticed by now the Blogosphere and twitterverse have been buzzing since Friday tea-time around ITV, The Alan Titchmarsh show and Julie erm...Peasgood.

The theme of the discussion was set to start off with the video-game BAFTAs with host Titchmarsh reading the list of BAFTA nominees, followed with the phrase "but recently has come under fire due to the violent nature of". From the get-go, the show developed into a witch-hunt. Computer and Video Game editor Tim Ingham, the rational man tried to talk about the age-ratings system. Kelvin MacKenzie, a Murdoch-associate was mostly useless:until he continued his journalistic career disaster by invoking the name of news trend 'Jon Venables' as a murderer inspired by violent games. However "Sexpert/actress" Julie Peasgood was the head, witch-hunting, stringing along the other guests and frenzied audience with her emotive pleas.

"Think of the children".
Which sounds made up, very made up. Something a hack writer creating a moral panic brewer might write. Weirdest of all: Peasgood directly addressing Ingham,
"Tim, How do you defend a shoot-out in an airport? (which happens in one of the games that's up for an award) How do you defend being there, shooting innocent civilians.....in your videogame?"
The clip made it's way around Youtube and you can watch it here though I suspect you really shouldn't bother.
One of my favourite blog entries is at No Soap Radio Polka.
Uk Resistance locates "Holby Clitty" and "Blow-Job Eyes" as sub-headings in Peasgood's Sex book and one contact created an inspired 'Peasgood Game'
The ITV forums registered complaints and I suspect a few emails reached their offices too.
By Sunday afternoon a new twist to the story came to light, one popularly attributed to computerandvideogames.com. Peasgood, chief arsonist of the aforementioned mob, turns out to have provided voice acting work for Martian Gothic: Unification (2000) A Resident Evil-type game, it featured flesh-eating zombies, gun-fights and... "group hysteria". Peasgood voiced the bit-part character of Judith Halloway, sending Earth a final message from her doomed crew, "Stay alone, stay alive." So that settles it then, games are very dangerous. Bad Ju-Ju.
