This won't get nearly as much publicity as the original complaint, but...

[mrph]

TV watchdog clears Springer opera - "The BBC's controversial screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera did not break rules on TV standards, media regulator Ofcom has decided"

edit: Oh, and Christian Voice (the organisation behind many of the original complaints) is appealing for £75000 so that they can start a private prosecution for blasphemy. No word yet as to whether or not they're also prosecuting the Times and the BBC, as threatened, for 'untrue quotes' about them on Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'.

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[mhw.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking, the 1977 prosecution was for blasphemous libel, not blasphemy. You may find it interesting to read what the Select Committee on Religious Offences had to say about the state of the law prior to and after the passage of the Human Rights Act 1988: here.

Note particularly the beginning of paragraph 10: Although no blasphemy case has been prosecuted in England and Wales since the passage of the Human Rights Act, and what follows is therefore necessarily speculative, it is our view that any prosecution for blasphemy today—even one which met all the criteria described in paragraphs 5-7 above—is likely to fail on grounds either of discrimination or denial of the right to freedom of expression.