This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Make BBC2 commission a fifth series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
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BBC 2's comedy department have cancelled the popular, intelligent and innovative TV series made by genius comic Stewart Lee, under the pretence of funding cuts. Given the licence fee has not decreased the reality is they have reallocated the funding to some other less important programming.
They're probably spending the money making a programme about Michael Portillo going on a bus or something.
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