Category: Strictly Spoiler

21st November 201521st November 2015

Strictly Come Dancing 2015 – Week 9 Spoilers

IMPORTANT – I know most of you only read the 2nd paragraph of the spoiler post each week but you really need to read this. This week the BBC launched an attack on The Strictly Spoiler which resulted in the removal of The Strictly Spoiler Facebook Page from Facebook. You can read more about this attack and what you can do to help fight back. The Strictly Spoiler needs each and every one of you to join the fight back so please help!

Strictly hit the bright lights of Blackpool this weekend and whilst the BBC may have silenced Facebook, The Strictly Spoiler is still on hand to provide the information that so many of you crave each week. Who shone in the Tower Ballroom and who has been sent packing home on a Donkey ride. No need to wait any longer to find out the results. So here are the results:

Peter and Jamelia had to dance off. The judges saved Peter. Jamelia was eliminated. The judges voted as follows: Craig, Darcey and Bruno – Peter. Len – Jamelia

This week’s spoiler has come from an audience mole through my usual sources and should be accurate.

Complaints to the BBC – especially if you liked the Facebook Page!

Enter The Strictly Spoiler competition to win a £50 amazon voucher. If you previously entered on Facebook or Twitter you will need to re-enter by commenting on the competition post. Sorry about that but the BBC is to blame for that one!

Please take a couple of moments to like/share this post using links for all popular social networks and Google+ above and below. Especially Facebook because the BBC will love that. You can’t like The Strictly Spoiler any more on Facebook because the BBC don’t want you to but you can still follow me on Twitter to interact with and keep up to date with The Strictly Spoiler. This is currently the ONLY official Strictly Spoiler social networking account. Beware of imitations! Or accounts that the BBC get deleted!

If you don’t use social networking (or you only use Facebook) you can comment on this post using the link above to tell me what you think.

Finally Please vote in this week’s poll and tell me who your favourites were this week. As always you can select up to 3 choices.

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19th November 201519th November 2015

The Strictly Spoiler Needs You!

As I posted yesterday The BBC launched an attack on The Strictly Spoiler and got Facebook to remove The Strictly Spoiler Facebook Page. Over 1000 visitors to The Strictly Spoiler liked that page and the page was rapidly becoming a community for people to discuss the spoiler, the show and all things Strictly.

The BBC’s removal of this page as well as being an attack on The Strictly Spoiler is also an attack on Freedom of Speech and an attempt at censorship. All from a publicly funded broadcaster.

I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking about what to do. I have sent a strongly worded email to the BBC which they no doubt won’t bother to read and will just delete. So I’ve decided to launch a petition to the BBC, Tony Hall Director General of The BBC, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to undo this travesty and reinstate The Strictly Spoiler Facebook Page.

You can support the petition by signing it here. Also please share the petition on your own social networking pages and spread the word.

The BBC may have won the first battle but with your help we can win the war!

Complaints to the BBC!

18th November 201521st November 2015

So The BBC Don’t Want Me To Have A Facebook Page

Just to clear up some confusion, this post is talking about The Strictly Spoiler page on the Facebook social network. Only that page is affected and it is business as usual still on this website

So about 30 minutes ago I received a notification from Facebook and an email informing me that The Strictly Spoiler Facebook page had been removed following a complaint that the page violates a 3rd party’s trademark rights. The email received is below:

So yeah, basically the BBC have complained to Facebook that the page violated their trademark of Strictly Come Dancing even though said page was called “The Strictly Spoiler” and didn’t remotely infringe on their trademarks.

Needless to say I’m not very happy this has happened. The Facebook page was starting to become somewhat of a community with over 1,000 people liking it and many commenting on posts discussing the show, the spoiler and all things Strictly. I’ve also expended a significant amount of money advertising the page on Facebook in order to help build it up, money which has now gone to waste! I’m sure the BBC having this Facebook Page removed is more about trying to stop the results leaking out than it is breach of their trademark especially as many other pages and groups which do use the trademarked text exist and don’t seem to have been targeted by the BBC. Pages/groups such as this one, this one, this one and even this one all clearly infringe the trademark that the BBC is so concerned about and yet they remain on Facebook!

Of course if the BBC aren’t happy with me posting the spoiler to Facebook (or indeed anywhere else) the simple solution would be to do away with the whole pre recording the results show and have it live. It seems a waste of time, not to mention license fee payers money to have staff working to take down a page on Facebook that wasn’t infringing on their trademarks anyway.

Whilst I probably could fight it I simply don’t have the time or the resources to be in a legal battle with a large corporation at the moment. I am an individual with limited financial resources and I’m also a university student with many assignments due in so don’t have a lot of time either. The BBC are a large corporation with many millions of pounds of license fee payers money that they could waste on a legal battle with an individual. It wouldn’t be the first time (*cough* The Stig *cough*). Obviously if anyone who views this site is a copyright/trademark lawyer and wants to work for free…….. well it was worth a try! I am fighting this to the best of my ability though and you can read more about the fight and how you can help HERE

In the mean time I’ve removed any links to the Facebook page from the main site and posts. I’m also suspending entry to the competition I’ve been running on Facebook (for obvious reasons) and Twitter (as a precaution) so currently the only way to enter that competition is through this site now and all entries received on Facebook/Twitter will be void. I really wanted to give something back to the people who have made this site and respective social network communities a success and hopefully I can still do that but having this page taken down on Facebook has unnerved me somewhat and I may have to tone down my activities on social networking sites in the meantime.

Complaints to the BBC