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GB News presenter and Shipley MP Philip Davies said that the BBC had no business cashing on Savile’s sordid activities.<\/p>\n
He also questioned why the BBC downplayed its own role in the whole scandal.<\/p>\n
Mr Davies told Express.co.uk: “It seems like a convenient selective memory about his sordid past and their involvement in it.<\/p>\n
“If they want to cover him they should be much more up front about their failings in the scandal.”<\/p>\n
Dudley North MP Marco Longhi was equally angry about the production.<\/p>\n
Don’t miss… <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n Mr Longhi said: “Jimmy Savile was at the forefront of television presenting for several years at a time when the BBC was the main channel in the country.<\/p>\n “This \u2018documentary\u2019 is something many people will see as a programme made by the BBC, for the BBC, through the licence fee of those who remain sickened at tacit acceptance of what so many in the BBC must have known was happening.<\/p>\n “In effect, the BBC is \u2018judge and jury\u2019 over its own very serious shortcomings – and all of this paid for via the licence fee – perversely capitalising on Savile\u2019s notoriety.<\/p>\n “If this programme was to be made, it certainly should not have been the BBC that made it.”<\/p>\n The BBC has defended the production.<\/p>\n A BBC spokesperson said: “The focus of the drama has not shifted.<\/p>\n “We have always said that we\u2019re working closely with many people whose lives were impacted by Savile, including survivors \u2014 four of whom also feature in the drama.”<\/p>\n Savile is now believed to have been a prolific child sex offender using his fame and influence as cover as well as his power at the BBC.<\/p>\n He was also accused of having intercourse with dead bodies and being given the key to hospitals to go where he wished in a litany of crimes which only became public after a full-scale inquiry was carried out.<\/p>\n Recently, Tory MP Lee Anderson raised the case of Savile when he controversially described the BBC as “a safe haven for perverts.”<\/p>\n
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