BAFTA Says a ‘Comprehensive Review Is Underway’ Over Film Awards N-Word Incident in Letter to Members: ‘Our Intention to Be Inclusive in No Way Diminishes the Impact’

The British Academy has further addressed Sunday night’s N-word controversy at the Film Awards. In a letter to members sent Tuesday, BAFTA Chair Sara Putt and CEO Jane Millichip discussed the incident, in which Tourette’s syndrome activist John Davidson involuntarily shouted the N-word while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting on stage. In the […]

By Alex Ritman

The Tourette row at the Baftas

John Davidson’s involuntary outburst didn’t reflect ‘his true feelings’ but BBC’s editing lapse was an ‘inexplicable’ error

By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK

BBC edited a second racial slur out of Bafta ceremony

The BBC's chief content officer Kate Phillips says a slur that aired was the result of a genuine error.