Comcast-Backed Sky News Slammed By UK Regulator For Airing Expletive-Filled Harvey Weinstein Doc During The Day

Sky News has been slapped on the wrist for broadcasting a repeat of an expletive-filled documentary about Harvey Weinstein during the middle of the day.

The Comcast-owned broadcaster aired hour-long doc Weinstein: Hollywoods Reckoning, which tells the story of the disgraced movie moguls downfall due to a raft of sexual abuse allegations, at 3pm in the afternoon. The problem, however, was that some of the language in the doc, which originally aired in a primetime slot on its sister channel Sky Atlantic, was not fit for a daytime audience.

The offending comment was from an ex-employee of the Weinstein Company, who commented, “I said: you know what? I quit, and your brother is a fxxking pig”.

Regulator Ofcom received a complaint about the offensive language and found the network in breach of Rule 1.14, which states that “offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed unless it is justified by the context”.

Sky News accepted that the doc was mistakenly played out on Sky News during the daytime. It claimed that the version used “was not marked with a post watershed restriction and it was wrongly assumed that it was suitable for daytime transmission”. As a result, the broadcaster has reviewed its processes and introduced new guidance setting outRead More – Source

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