Is the BBC beginning to scrub Huw Edwards from its huge library of content material?
The UK broadcaster has faraway from iPlayer an episode of Physician Who that includes the disgraced information anchor, who this week pleaded responsible to indecent little one picture expenses.
Not out there to stream is Concern Her, an installment from Season 2 of the sci-fi drama starring David Tennant and Billie Piper.
The episode, by which Edwards’ voice may be heard throughout a information clip, was out there on iPlayer as just lately as final month, per web archive data.
Edwards options when Chloe Webber, a woman who’s terrorized by a demonic model of her abusive lifeless father, makes everybody disappear in a sports activities stadium.
“My God, what’s happening right here? The gang has simply vanished, proper in entrance of my eyes,” he says. “It’s inconceivable. Bob, can we go to you within the field? Bob? Not you too?”
The BBC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
It’s maybe unsurprising that executives are trying on the Edwards episode, given the character of his crimes and that Physician Who has a younger fan base. The Every day Mirror reported that the footage of Edwards could be edited out.
The BBC will face choices over whether or not it may replay numerous hours of archive footage of Edwards. He has been a mainstay for main nationwide moments, together with the Queen’s loss of life.
There have additionally been questions over whether or not Edwards ought to be scrubbed from James Bond film Skyfall, throughout which he seems as a newsreader.
