ITC upholds Champions League promo complaints

The Independent Television Commission has upheld 223 complaints about an ITV trailer promoting Champions League football matches, broadcast by LWT. It showed a boy flicking food at his grandmother in the hope of being sent to his room, where he would be able to watch television.

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