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Benefit Busters

1 in 10 TV viewers watched Benefit Busters

Posted on August 29th, 2009.

The first Channel 4 documentary programme/entertainment show Benefit Busters on single mums at A4e Doncaster made a strong start on the 20th August with a combined 2.39 million viewers (10.8%) – 2.2 million viewers (9.7%) at 9pm on Channel 4 and another 190,000 (1.1%) on Channel 4 +1. The A4e Hull featured Channel 4 documentary [...]

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A4e Hull Benefit Busters Episode 2: now on 4oD

Posted on September 4th, 2009.

New Deal Scandal can reveal that Episode 2 of Benefit Busters is now back online on the Channel 4 website. 

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Benefit Busters Episode 2 temporarily pulled to conceal someones identity?

Posted on September 1st, 2009.

It appears that perhaps A4e did not pull episode 2 and perhaps the Government did not pull episode 2, says a regular blog viewer and commenter: Channel 4 decided to remove this episode of BENEFIT BUSTERS because subsequent to transmission a person contacted Channel 4 and asked for his identity to be concealed in the [...]

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Benefit Busters Episode 2: Channel 4 pulls Episode 2 preview clips

Posted on September 2nd, 2009.

New Deal Scandal can reveal that Channel 4 has finally pulled the preview clips for Episode 2. It has caused great controversy when Channel 4 decided to pull the Episode 2 Benefit Busters show from 4od and Virgin Media On Demand service while scrapping the repeat showing too. There was confusion where most people were [...]

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Benefit Busters: Episode 2 Preview

Posted on August 26th, 2009.

Benefit Busters is on again tomorrow at 9pm. The first episode of Series 1 of Benefit Busters spreaded a lot of anger of Princess Emma of Sheffield in her mansion and A4e: the largest New Deal Provider. New Deal Scandal will review the preview clips of Episode 2 of Benefit Busters – this show could [...]

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Benefit Busters: New Deal Scandal launches a new website

Posted on September 7th, 2009.

New Deal Scandal today officially opens the new Benefit Busters discussion blog aimed to focus specifically on the issues raised in all 3 episodes of the Benefit Busters series 1. 

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Benefit scroungers are Britains most annoying pet hate

Posted on August 27th, 2009.

It is official – the Government has succeeded with its campaign against bullying genuine claimants from claiming benefits they are legally entitled to. In a survey of the 100 most annoying things for 2008, benefit scroungers bet the Credit Crunch and Gordon Brown to the top spot.

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Channel 4 Benefit Busters Episode 2 not On Demand

Posted on August 29th, 2009.

Sorry to all New Deal Scandal blog viewers for not commenting on the Episode 2 of Benefit Busters on the Longterm Unemployed – I have not yet seen it and is not available On Demand and via the 4od website. What are Channel 4 playing at? I will review the Channel 4 Benefit Busters Series [...]

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Did A4e get Benefit Busters Episode 2 pulled from On Demand?

Posted on August 29th, 2009.

It seems that Channel 4′s Benefit Busters Episode 2 was pulled from Virgin Media On Demand service and the online 4od service. Why? Rumour has it that perhaps A4e ordered the On Demand/Catch Up availability to be removed due to concerned pressures over the services provided which could lose them their Flexible New Deal contracts [...]

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Did Continental Landscapes get Benefit Busters Episode 2 pulled?

Posted on September 5th, 2009.

Doubts over the real reason for Benefit Busters Episode 2 being pulled has increased tonight when parts of the initial showing wasn’t available for viewing – being completely edited out! The initial concerns were of such actions being carried out by A4e. Concerns then followed that episode 2 was pulled by the Government. After Channel [...]

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Did the Government get A4e Benefit Busters Episode 2 pulled from On Demand?

Posted on August 31st, 2009.

We had recently reported that possibly A4e had pulled Benefit Busters Epidsode 2 from the TV repeat and On Demand services. Last night there was concerns that maybe the Government was involved in pulling the show off the air and off the internet.

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Indus Delta comment

Posted on January 29th, 2010.

As I am now successfully added to the Indus Delta spam filters my comment is as below

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Larry Lamb from Eastenders probes A4e Gateshead

Posted on December 7th, 2009.

Larry Lamb (famous for playing villain Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and also starring in Gavin and Stacey) is leaving EastEnders and due to star in a new BBC television documentary on unemployed designed to rival Channel 4′s attempt (Benefit Busters). The documentary is designed to follow probes into how the unemployed are treated – and [...]

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New Deal Scandal unique visitors double after A4e featured on Benefit Busters

Posted on August 29th, 2009.

The previous New Deal Scandal record was smashed by a figure almost double the previous record since Benefit Busters was shown.

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Save Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance

Posted on October 25th, 2009.

SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS Tony Greenstein Having already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, the message is clear. Disability Living Allowance is ‘inefficient’ [...]

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Watch the pulled Episode 2 of Benefit Busters here!

Posted on September 3rd, 2009.

Watch the controversial episode of Channel 4’s Benefit Busters Series 1 at A4e Hull here.

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