Huw Edwards vows to ‘challenge misleading claims’ in Channel 5 drama
Events leading to BBC presenter’s conviction for making indecent images of children were subject of TV movie
March 2026
TV review
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards review – Martin Clunes is sickening
The actor is horribly convincing in this ripped-from-the-headlines drama about the newsreader’s grooming scandal. You might not even be able to stomach it
Huw Edwards hates the TV dramatisation of his life. Maybe he should have thought of that before … you know
Marina Hyde
He’s done it again. The convicted sex offender, creator of victims, has gone and created another one – himself, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Huw Edwards says Channel 5 drama ‘hardly likely to convey reality’
‘There’s no way back for him’: Martin Clunes on playing Huw Edwards in a controversial new drama
Channel 5 defends Huw Edwards drama and says it gives voice to alleged victim
January 2026
Huw Edwards’s downfall to be dramatised in two-part Channel 5 series
Martin Clunes will play former BBC anchor in drama that depicts Edwards’s alleged grooming of a teenager
April 2025
This post-Huw Edwards BBC shakeup feels awfully familiar – and insiders aren’t impressed
Jane Martinson
There’s an air of Groundhog Day to this latest review, and little faith among employees that it will mean real change, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson
December 2024
From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024
Some made a splash in politics, social media, sport or the arts. Others took a brave personal stand. Observer writers and critics pick the names on everyone’s lips this year
Man who received child abuse images from same source as Huw Edwards given suspended sentence
Police found 35 category A images on devices belonging to Jac Davies, 25
The Guardian view on Gregg Wallace and the BBC: exposing poor conduct is in the public interest
Editorial: By drawing attention to the troubling behaviour of a male celebrity, Kirsty Wark recalls the spirit of #MeToo
October 2024
BBC boss says word ‘talent’ banned as workplace culture review begins
Tim Davie says corporation is committed to change after series of scandals including that surrounding Huw Edwards
September 2024
Bad behaviour at the BBC was overlooked
The lenience of Huw Edwards’s sentence is bad enough, but the explanation is worse
Catherine Bennett
Notebook
Childish it may be, but ‘two-tier Keir’ chant chimes with the disenchanted
Alison Phillips
Huw Edwards, and the ludicrous arguments bad men make in defence of the indefensible
Emma Brockes
Horrified by Huw Edwards case and sentence
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Tom Tugendhat’s call for review of Huw Edwards’ sentence backfires after experts tell him law doesn’t allow it – as it happened
After the Huw Edwards scandal, a tip for the BBC – your stars are not Gods: stop treating them like that
