Other viewers have taken the opportunity to comment on other BBC programmes, with Eastenders coming under the most scrutiny. "I realise that there's not usually background music in Eastenders," said Joe Public, BBC viewer and former Crufts Best in Breed, "But there's always the potential for background music. In the Vic there's the jukebox, in the houses there's the stereo and everywhere else they could just use the radio. If it's outdoors you could substitute music for roadworks or heavy traffic, and if they go to the countryside for some reason just get a cow to fart or something, I don't know, use your fucking imagination.

"The point is you could make the world a better place by drowning out all that cockney whining. And if you wanted to take it one step further perhaps you could use the red button to choose the background music. Imagine a scene where Ian Beale is being shot again, only properly this time, and you could choose a bit of reggae or dance music to accompany it. You wouldn't have to listen to his terrified screaming and the gunshot, you could just watch the spreading puddle formed by his brains running slowly down his chip shop window with Things Could Only Get Better blaring out from a nearby ghetto blaster.

"That sounds fucking magic to me."