Sky News seems to be trying to support the beleaguered BBC by saying:

[https://news.sky.com/story/reform-pulls-out-of-bbc-documentary-amid-trump-legal-threat-13469098]

The 57-minute Panorama special - Trump: A Second Chance? - first aired on BBC One on 28 October 2024, a week before the US election.

The documentary aired in the UK and was put on iPlayer.

A shorter international version was cut, but the Capitol speech moment was not included in that cut-down version.

The film never aired in the US and couldn't be viewed in the US on iPlayer as the content was geoblocked.

But surely it could be viewed via a VPN which gets around geoblocking?

Fact is the documentary was deliberately edited and whoever actually did the edit must have known what they were doing.

It's really irrelevant whether anyone watched it or not - someone in the BBC Panorama team deliberately created fake news, films don't edit themselves - so Reform is right to be withdrawing co-operation with a new BBC documentary as 'trust has been lost'.