TVB's decision to cut off actor Andy Lau Tak-wah's best actor acceptance speech at the Hong Kong Film Awards saw complaints to the Broadcasting Authority more than double last month.
The authority received 643 complaints, almost 160 per cent more than the 248 it received in March.
The authority said 63 per cent, or 409, of the complaints were about the Hong Kong Film Awards, which aired on April 4.
TVB apologised for the gaffe as soon as the complaints started flooding in.
It said timing for the programme had been set by computer, so the live broadcast jumped to a commercial automatically, cutting off Lau mid-sentence.
The authority also received 22 complaints about advertisements for the Miss Hong Kong pageant in which former beauty queen Shirley Yeung Sze-ki appeared to suggest that teaching was boring.
Of the 643 complaints, 22 per cent were related to the arrangement of commercials within a live programme, 35 per cent were about programmes deemed denigrating or insulting and 7 per cent were about material unsuitable for children.