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BREAKING: Bassem Youssef's TV show El-Bernameg suspended: CBC channel CBC suspends Youssef's wildly-popular satirical show minutes before airtime on Friday after finding content in violation of station's 'editorial policy'
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's show "El-Bernameg" was suspended by host channel CBC minutes before it was due to screen on Friday. The channel announced in a statement read by TV anchor Khairy Ramadan that it had decided to suspend the show after review of the third season's second episode, which was yet to be screened, revealed that Youssef and his producer had "violated what has been agreed upon" with CBC, as well as CBC's "editorial policies." Following the announcement, El-Bernameg wrote on its Twitter account that it was currently uploading the banned episode on YouTube. After an almost three-month hiatus, Youssef returned to television last week, resuming his old habits of poking fun at ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. However, in the season's premier episode, Youssef broke from his old routine by also targeting supporters of army chief General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. El-Bernameg's home network expressed last week its disapproval of Youssef's season opener – the first episode since Morsi's ouster – condemning its mockery of the "symbols of the Egyptian state." However, according to Bassem Sabry, a famous blogger and Twitter activist, this week's suspended episode did not poke fun at El-Sisi, but rather at the media and especially host channel CBC, according to those who attended the live show earlier Wednesday. This is not the first time for CBC to suspend Youssef's show. In 2012, the channel suspended the first season's second episode, during which Youssef made fun of both famous CBC presenters as well as then-president Mohamed Morsi. Youssef later broadcasted the episode on YouTube. A host of legal complaints were filed against Youssef following the third season's premier last Friday. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/85369.aspx