Richard E. Grant's new tv drama 'Jekyll And Hyde' is under investigation after it fetched 800 complaints from the viewers.
The new tv drama, which debuted at 6.30pm last Sunday has received an overflowing amount of complaints after it horrified many viewers due to its violent scenes, including brutal murder.
According to contactmusic, U.K. watchdog The Office of Communications (Ofcom) received 459 complaints from the viewers while more than 200 angry viewers contacted the network and quibble about the thriller.
Ofcom officials have now launched investigation to determine if ITV chiefs broke broadcasting rules. "Ofcom has carefully assessed a number of complaints about Jekyll and Hyde on ITV," an Ofcom spokesperson told WENN. "We are opening an investigation into whether the programme complied with our rules on appropriate scheduling and violent content before the watershed."
Meanwhile, writer Charlie Higson has apologized for the show. He explained to BBC Radio 6's Stuart Maconie that he didn't intend to offend anyone, he just wants it to be a scary program. The writer said, "I'm sorry that anyone got upset by it. It wasn't my intention to upset people by it. Obviously, it was my intention for it to be scary - it's a scary show."
He also insisted that he received a lot of good feedbacks about the TV program through social media, which starred Tom Bateman, Richard E Grant and Natalie Gumede but he wasn't expecting that he would receive more negative from it.
"I was expecting more people to complain that it wasn't scary enough, rather than people saying "This is a scary show and I found it scary," Higson said.
Higson admitted that it is pretty hard to set pre-watershed air time for the program that will make it suitable for kids but insisted there were other programs that were far more violent than their show.
"It's a difficult thing talking about pre-watershed because you can't make every programme suitable for a 5-year-old to watch. The rugby was out before we went on, and it was one of the most violent things I've ever seen on television," he said.
