ITV Drama Incites Public Complaints Of Violence

The ITV drama Trial And Retribution II, broadcast in October last year, led to 42 public complaints being sent to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) concerning the violent and explicit nature of some of the programme’s sequences.

The programme contained scenes of mutilated women which were broadcast very shortly after the 9pm watershed. Yorkshire Television, the programme’s producer, says that the scenes were justified by the dramatic context in which they were placed. The ITC agreed with this but maintained that it should not have been shown so early in the evening. However, in view of Yorkshire’s excellent compliance record in recent years, the ITC decided to take no further action.

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