Not debating the rights or wrongs of the programme (that's been done to death; I liked some of the characters but thought others were absolute vile), doesn't "banning" it draw attention to it, and mean that lots of people will now watch it? Perhaps even some people who had never heard of it are now tuning in, and having a good laugh.
Ditto Fawlty Towers: "Don't mention the don't mention the war episode!"
As Hermione observes with pleasure in the book of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when Dolores Umbridge banned the magazine The Quibbler because of Harry's interview, she guaranteed that every person in the school would read it.
(Anticipates replies of "no but yeah but no but yeah", "computer says no", and so on.) 