The BBC broadcast an episode of Family Guy about Robin Williams and a failed suicide attempt just minutes before it was revealed that the actor had been found hanged.
An extraordinary coincidence saw the ‘Viewer Mail #2’ episode shown on BBC Three between 11.25pm and 11.45pm on Monday - with the death announced by Reuters news agency at 11.56pm.
A sketch in the episode called 'Fatman and Robin' sees Peter Griffin, the father in the US comedy, gain the power to turn everyone in his fictional city of Quahog into Williams by touching them.
Robin Williams: An extraordinary coincidence saw the 'Viewer Mail #2' episode of Family Guy shown on BBC Three between 11.25pm and 11.45pm on Monday - with the death announced by Reuters at 11.56pm
Long career: Williams was found hanged in California at 11.45am local time (7.45pm BST) on Monday
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A BBC spokesman said yesterday that the broadcast of the episode was an ‘uncanny coincidence’, but confirmed that a scheduled repeat of it for Friday will now not be shown.
He said: ‘The episode ended just as the news broke about his death. This was a repeat that we have shown a couple of times before, so who could have planned that?
‘It was scheduled more than two weeks ago so it is just an uncanny coincidence. Some of our people who work here noticed that the death of Robin Williams was announced just as this episode ended.’
The spokesman added: ‘It was due to be repeated on Friday but we will not be showing it now.’
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