head of Channel 4 programming Michael  Grade, most notably a piece concerning a musical based on the life of and  starring the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. The edition of the show in which  the sketch would have featured was allegedly broadcast containing a onscreen  subliminal message lasting 1/25 of a second that read "Grade is a cunt".  The  series was repeated in 2001 with the Sutcliffe sketch and some other material  shown uncut, and with the subliminal message removed.