On Sunday evening ITV1 screened the first episode of it’s new series, Jekyll and Hyde.
More than 500 viewers have since lodged complaints with ITV and Ofcom over the level of violence and horror in the show. One high-profile commentator has described Charlie Higson, Jekyll and Hyde’s writer, as an ‘idiot and a disgrace’ for allowing the programme to be aired at 6.30 in the evening, a time when many children are likely to be watching.
Higson has hit back at critics saying, wisely: ‘We can’t protect our children from being scared but we can prepare them for it by exposing them to harmless scares so they learn how to cope.’
The broadcast was preceded by a warning that it might not… Read the full story