BBC head Tim Davie resigns over doctored footage of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech in documentary | 9 Nov 2025 | The director-general of the BBC has resigned Sunday amid scandal after the British state broadcaster shared doctored footage of President Trump speaking on Jan. 6. Tim Davie, who has headed up the publicly-funded media outlet for five years, said he was taking “ultimate responsibility” for recent “mistakes” made in a statement published by the BBC. His resignation and that of the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, come after it was revealed that the BBC’s flagship news program, Panorama, spliced together two clips of Trump speaking on Jan. 6, 2021, implying that he had directly told his supporters to storm the Capitol. The program, which aired a week before the 2024 presidential election, “completely misled” viewers… by editing together footage from the start of the speech with a separate quote nearly an hour later, according to the leaked dossier.