Casualty breaches TV guidelines after swear phrases seem ‘incorrectly’ on subtitles
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n episode of TV drama Casualty has breached broadcasting guidelines after swear phrases appeared in subtitles earlier than the watershed, Ofcom has dominated.
The media watchdog acquired a criticism about offensive language within the optionally available subtitles of a repeated episode of the British TV sequence which aired on June 12, together with two situations of the phrase “f**king” regardless of the programme’s audio not utilizing any offensive language.
On Monday, Ofcom dominated that the programme had breached its rule that prohibits the “most offensive language on television before the watershed” because it aired at 10.30am on TV channel Drama.
UKTV Media, which holds the licence for Drama, mentioned the episode was “incorrectly subtitled” and apologised for the incident.
It additionally defined that subtitling of the present is outsourced to Red Bee Media and the subtitler, who had not adopted protocols, had been “disciplined and withdrawn from subtitling duties until they have been through a thorough retraining process with their line manager”.
This subtitling error occurred resulting from human error and we apologise for any offence triggered. We have complete steerage in place which has been reshared with the subtitling staff
UKTV mentioned that it gives “huge volumes of access services across our linear channels” and the “error” on this circumstance was “the first issue of this nature UKTV has experienced”.
It additionally mentioned that each UKTV and Red Bee had taken motion and put additional processes and coaching in place to cease it from occurring once more, whereas asking Ofcom to think about the case resolved.
The UK regulator mentioned whereas it took under consideration UKTV had not skilled the problem earlier than and took motion to deal with it afterwards, there have been no mitigating components corresponding to on-air apology.
Ofcom dominated the printed was in breach of rule 1.14 of the code which prevents offensive language earlier than the watershed.
A spokesperson from UKTV mentioned: “This subtitling error occurred due to human error and we apologise for any offence caused. We have comprehensive guidance in place which has been reshared with the subtitling team.
“We take our commitment to providing subtitling for our viewers extremely seriously and we continue to exceed the required quota for subtitling and audio description on our channels.”
Drama is a tv channel which specialises in repeats of well-known British TV drama sequence, together with Casualty, which normally airs on BBC One.