Today I can exclusively break a big story that I am certain will shock views of our own beloved ABC TV and maybe add a Walkley to my mantelpiece.

Extensive research on my part involving several online Google searches has revealed that UK broadcasters the BBC, Sky, and Channel 4 are trying to claim credit for some of our own national broadcaster’s recent popular programs.

For instance, the successful ABC series The Piano in which amateur musicians are invited to play their favourite pieces by tickling the ivories in public places is being claimed by Channel 4 as one of its own.

I am sure this will come as a shock to (Subs: Please insert the host’s name here because I can’t recall it, and remove this note before publication.) who hosts the Aussie show of the same name and format.

Channel 4 has also gone to the extent of suggesting its version of the show predates the Aussie program.

I suspect, but can’t yet prove, that the British broadcaster has been using AI to hack various websites to cover its tracks.

Channel 4 is also guilty of claiming ownership of the program Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds which was produced and aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation a few years back and which was followed up by the Old People’s Home for Teenagers series.

Once again the Pommy thieves have obviously manipulated sources of information such as websites to suggest their version predates ours.

But there is more bad news for the highly paid original thinkers at the ABC.

What we have always thought of as the ABC’s friendly UK sibling, the British Broadcasting Corporation, has laid claim to programs such as The Assembly which gathers together young autistic people to quiz celebrities.

Plus the British Sky TV network has pinched the concept of the ABC’s Portrait Artist of the Year, and don’t get me started on the ABC’s Claire Hooper’s House of Games in which host (Subs: Please insert the host’s name here because I can’t recall it, and remove this note before publication.) puts a panel of celebrities through a series of guessing games.

The BBC is peddling a show called Richard Osman’s House of Games and trying to pass it off as its own.

I can promise the reader of The Bug that I have much more digging to do into this scandal involving intellectual property theft on a global scale.

I will not waver in bringing all my investigative journalism skills to bear to ensure Aussie talent and original ideas are truly recognised.

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