BBC shows episode of Family Guy involving Robin Williams and a failed suicide attempt just minutes before his death is announced

• Social media users fire up over 7Mate's broadcast of old Family Guy episode poking fun at Robin Williams 
  
• 'It was a coincidence', Seven spokesperson tells media blog Mumbrella 
  
• BBC also broadcast a Family Guy repeat featuring Williams - and suicide

By MARK DUELL and DANIEL PIOTROWSKI FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

PUBLISHED: 00:04 GMT, 13 August 2014 | UPDATED: 10:24 GMT, 13 August 2014

Channel Seven has come under fire after broadcasting a Family Guy episode featuring jokes about Robin Williams hours after it was revealed the actor had been found dead. 

Digital channel 7Mate broadcast the ‘Big Man on Hippocampus’ episode at 11pm last night - some 14 hours after news broke that the Good Will Hunting actor had died, Mumbrella reported.

The network copped flak from viewers on social media, with various punters blasting the programming decision as 'insensitive' and 'poor form'. 

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