Overview
- Ofcom confirmed on Monday that it has opened a formal investigation under the Broadcasting Code’s fairness and privacy rules into Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.
- The two-part Channel 5 dramatisation premiered in March and portrays allegations involving a vulnerable young man alongside Edwards’s widely reported 2024 guilty plea for making indecent images of children.
- Channel 5 and producer Wonderhood say the programme was based on extensive interviews with the victim and family, text exchanges and court reporting and that they will robustly defend it.
- Huw Edwards has publicly called the drama one-sided and at least some news outlets report he lodged the Ofcom complaint, though Ofcom has not named the complainant.
- Ofcom will take representations from the parties and may hold a private hearing before deciding whether the code was breached and what sanctions, if any, to impose, a process that could affect how broadcasters handle sensitive real-life stories.