BBC shows embroiled in controversy
In 2007, the corporation was forced to apologise to the Queen for wrongly implying she had stormed out of a sitting with celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz. A trailer for a BBC1 documentary series, A Year With The Queen, gave the impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the photoshoot when Ms Leibowitz asked her to remove her crown.
The BBC was fined £50,000 in the same year after the results of a Blue Peter competition were faked. The show allowed a child visiting the studio to pose as a caller when technical problems stopped real calls getting through to the studio. Media watchdog Ofcom criticised the BBC for “negligence” and for “making a child complicit” in the deception.
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Hide AdThis year, the BBC apologised to Primark after an award-winning Panorama programme about the firm was found “more likely than not” to have included faked footage of child labour. The BBC Trust found that a clip said to show three boys in a workshop in India testing stitching in Primark clothes should not have been included in the programme.