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Complaints against BBC for showing sex, violence
Friday April 27, 2012 06:57:27 PM,
IANS
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London: The BBC has
been hit with a flood of complaints after a crime drama showed a
prison guard sexually assaulting a man and explicit images of a
man's throat being slit.
Viewers were reportedly appalled at the graphic violence shown in
"Silent Witness", and filed more than 500 complaints. The BBC
received 483 and media regulator Ofcom 35, said the Daily Mail.
Although the show was aired after the restricted time, viewers
said the scenes were "graphic and nasty" and "went too far".
The BBC stood by its programme but offered an apology to viewers.
The controversial scenes came in a two-part story about a prison
where a guard was a killer.
A large number of complaints were related to the scenes where the
prison officer was shown attacking a drug dealer in a toilet.
Viewers only heard the violence being carried out in a closed
cubicle and saw blood seep from beneath the door. The prisoner's
half-dressed body was later seen as the guard emerged from the
cubicle.
Other violent scenes showed an officer slitting the throat of a
colleague and bludgeoning to death another man.
Viewers expressed their shock on internet message-boards.
"I have only just started watching 'Silent Witness' and think that
series like this are far too graphic and nasty and I am not
surprised that we have violence in real life today," a viewer
said.
A BBC statement said the scene "was not an attempt to gratuitously
shock the audience" but was "rooted in character and research".
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