BAFTA Fallout: BBC To Investigate How John…
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The fallout from the N-word spewing incident at the BAFTAs continues, and every new piece of news makes the BBC community look that a lot worse.
According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is making sure that they keep the filth off its shareholders’ stock-watching shoulders. WB was a major stakeholder in the manufacturing of the BAFTAs, and they contend that their execs immediately raised issues about John Davidson’s Tourette’s-induced disruption. A source at the media conglomerate says that they contacted BBC “within minutes” of the controversy and have been told that the issue can be introduced instantly to the show’s producer, Penny Laney TV, and the issue can be solved thanks to the two-hour tape delay.
However, the producers inform a different story.
They say that they have been fully unaware of what Davidson had said until it was “too late” and the anti-Black slurs went into hundreds of thousands of houses via the BBC One channel. Deadline studies that BAFTA and Penny Lane declined to remark despite the previous admitting that conversations with WB did in fact happen.
WB is skeptical of that excuse.
“For their story to be true, it means that nobody in the room mentioned it to the BBC or BAFTA in the two hours between the incident and it airing. That’s just not possible,” a senior impartial producer told Deadline.
Meanwhile, according to The Times, director-general Tim Davie has said that the BBC is conducting an inner investigation to decide how the traces of communication broke down in that second.
This was a critical mistake and the director-general has instructed the Executive Complaints Unit to full a fast-tracked investigation and present a full response to complainants,” it said.
Someone’s head goes to roll behind this worldwide incident, and it seems that all events concerned are in critical “CYA” mode.
BOSSIP will continue to observe this story as more updates are made public.
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