The company responsible for the BBC trailer which wrongly implied that the Queen had stormed out of a photo session has been dropped by ITV.
The network has stopped commissioning new programmes from production company RDF Media while an inquiry takes place into the controversial Queen documentary which sparked a review of all BBC programming, RDF Media said yesterday.
RDF said it had been informed by the commercial broadcaster that no new programmes will be commissioned "before and subject to" the publication of the independent inquiry into circumstances surrounding the furore.
RDF, which makes programmes including Wife Swap and Scrapheap Challenge, and also owns the Scottish-based companies Comedy Unit and IWC - previously known as Wark Clements - said business from ITV was expected to account for about 11% of its revenues in the current financial year.
However, the company told the stock market yesterday: "The directors do not consider that a pause in commissioning by ITV will have a material impact on the group's results in the current year."
The BBC has also suspended its commissioning from RDF, with the corporation accounting for about 10% of its total revenues. RDF said mistakes made by the company would not happen again and added that it was "confident" the BBC would resume working with it soon.
However, RDF shares fell 8% following the statement from the firm yesterday.
An ITV spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that we won't be commissioning any new shows pending the outcome of the independent BBC inquiry." Existing shows or those which have already been commissioned will not be affected.
RDF is currently making a new series of Ladette To Lady for ITV1 and this will go ahead as planned.
Channel 4 said it saw "no reason" to suspend its relationship with RDF, which provides it with hit shows including Shipwrecked.
Channel 4 added: "We are in the process of contacting all our suppliers about the issues raised by the current debate about standards within television and will be monitoring all our output very carefully. We will take further action as appropriate."
The offending RDF trailer was made about a BBC documentary on the Queen, which appeared to show the monarch storming out of a portrait sitting with Annie Leibovitz after the US photographer asked her to remove her crown.
RDF admitted that it had been "guilty of a serious error of judgment" in editing the clips in reverse order - the pictures of the queen walking down a corridor and telling her lady-in-waiting she would not change her costume were shot before she entered the photo shoot with Leibovitz.
RDF owns IWC, the biggest independent producer in Scotland and one of the biggest in the UK, but the majority of their production is for the BBC and Channel 4, although it makes a drama for ITV called Fallen Angel.
The Comedy Unit makes popular shows such as Still Game, Only An Excuse, Chewin' The Fat and the Karen Dunbar Show.
RDF shows in the pipeline which were revealed earlier this month included The Great Pretender, a new quiz show for ITV1 hosted by Chris Tarrant, and a documentary for the channel observing author JK Rowling during the year that she completed the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
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