After the awards display, Phil Davis took to Twitter to broadcast his lawsuits concerning the display and announce his resignation.
“The BAFTA awards had been an embarrassing travesty,” Davis wrote on Twitter. “Chopping deserving winners speeches for toe curling non interviews. Deficient Richard E Grant pretending to arrive in a Batmobile and no Bernard Cribbens in memorium. I resigned my club.”
In accordance to The Hollywood Reporter, BAFTA put out a remark that mentioned they had been saving Cribbins’ in memoriam for the TV Awards broadcast, which takes position Might 14. Cribbins, who passed on to the great beyond in 2022 on the age of 93, was once additionally an actor on “Doctor Who,” taking part in Donna Noble’s (Catherine Tate) grandfather, Wilfred Mott. The actor reprised the function for the sixtieth anniversary “Doctor Who” specials earlier than his passing, which can air in November 2023.
Regardless of Davis’ lawsuits, alternatively, the rankings for the awards display seem to have stepped forward from the 2021 awards, additionally in accordance to The Hollywood Reporter. The BBC’s protection of the development averaged 2.6 million audience.