I am watching the programme right now and I have never seen anything like it. Though it may be controversial, it needs to be shown so we know how to deal with something like this if it really happened. Plus, you can’t ban it because it is freedom of speech and people have a right to see it. When he was shot, it felt like you were actualy there. I wouldn’t want him dead because I am against the death penalty – unlike him, but look at how many people he has killed, in Iraq, Afghanistan, in Texas when he was governor. I wonder what it would be like if this really happened.

‘Plus, you can’t ban it because it is freedom of speech’

…which we don’t have in Great Britain, incidentally.

I’ll catch the repeat. My problem is with “newspapers” faking “news” on their covers. The Metro “Daily Planet” wraparound for Superman Returns earlier this year is a far better piece of advertising.

Maybe More4 (or whoever) will want to do the same with a drama about an attack of Bird Flu or North Korea launching a nuclear missile?

I think that this is as “clever” as those Sony Playstation direct mail ads claiming to have the results of my “tests” which showed that I was “positive”.

It’s too close for comfort for me. Like Adam, I don’t like the idea of newspapers faking “news” on their covers. In radio, news can’t even be sponsored, let alone faked for advertising purposes. Remember when Jeremy Vine faked the murder of Ian Huntley?

It’d catch my eye, but then it’d bother me greatly. I think that’s a bit of a shame because the programme sounds like it was really something.

What!?

Hmmm…. you’re clearly an advertising man! This is a total corruption of their (nascent) brand.

As the former MD of Metro said – with every such act you sell your soul.