But the embattled Director-General will come under further pressure on Tuesday, when the BBC releases an annual report expected to show declining viewing of its TV channels and more people cancelling their licence fees.
Davie admitted a “serious accuracy failing” in the Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone documentary, which was narrated by the son of a Hamas official without audiences being informed of the terror group link.
In a statement published just two hours earlier on Monday, the BBC also acknowledged that “more could and should have been done sooner” to intervene over Wallace’s inappropriate behaviour, after a legal review upheld 45 complaints against the presenter.
“Tim lives to fight another day but his job won’t get any easier,” said a BBC insider.
The controversial BBC documentary was shot over nine months by two Gazan cameramen, directed remotely from London (Photo: Amjad al-Fayoumi/BBC/Hoyo Films)
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who accused the BBC of a “problem of leadership” over mounting controversies, including the live broadcast of Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chant at Glastonbury, and is understood to have been privately critical of Davie, was noticeably more conciliatory in her remarks.
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She added: “It’s not for the Government to say who should and shouldn’t work at the BBC.”
“With this outcome following the antisemitic Bob Vylan rant, it feels like Jews are still being gaslit by the BBC,” one staffer said. “Once again, there is no accountability for senior executives.”
More trouble on the way for Teflon Tim
The document will reveal if the pace of paid-for licence fee cancellations – the number fell by 560,000 last year – has quickened.
Davie has also been invited to appear before MPs on the Commons Culture Select Committee for a grilling over the recent controversies.
The series could run on iPlayer without a regular BBC TV broadcast. However the situation is complicated by the knowledge that the Wallace review upheld offensive language complaints against two other MasterChef figures.
A report for the BBC upheld 45 of 83 claims against Gregg Wallace, including one that involved unwelcome physical contact (Photo: Dave Benett/Getty )What Davie has said
Davie apologised for the accuracy error in the Gaza film – by failing to disclose information about the child narrator’s father’s position within the Hamas-run government – and promised “fair, clear and appropriate actions to ensure proper accountability and the immediate implementation of steps to prevent such errors being repeated”.
He added: “This looks like a classic case of ‘deputy heads must roll’ and that is nowhere near good enough. As head of news Deborah Turness has questions to answer.”
On the findings of the Wallace report, the BBC said: “This behaviour falls below the values of the BBC and the expectations we have for anyone who works with or for us.
“Although the full extent of these issues were not known at the relevant time, opportunities were missed to address this behaviour – both by the production companies running MasterChef and the BBC. We accept more could and should have been done sooner.”
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