Member

I want to raise one other issue; this is perhaps not the right place to raise it, but I am going to get it off my chest. In all of last week’s concerns about a certain “Panorama” programme—rightly so—we failed to remember that many of the so-called scandals faced by the BBC were made by independent production companies. During the furore, I do not recall anybody asking, “What responsibility are the independent production companies taking? Has anybody from the independent production company offered to resign? Has anybody been chastised?” Where does the responsibility lie when a programme is made by an independent company? The BBC has a commissioning editor, of course, and they have some responsibility, presumably, but I would have thought that the independent production company does as well. Finally, we support these SIs.