The production company attached to the controversial Donald Trump Panorama only found out that it was about to cause one of the biggest crises to befall the BBC this decade when they read about it in the papers last week, Deadline understands.

October Films , which is in production on a Nigel Farage Reform documentary that Reform has just stopped co-operating with in light of the Trump scandal, co-produced the Panorama titled Donald Trump: A Second Chance with the BBC in-house current affairs division. October and the BBC developed the idea jointly and most of the people who worked on the doc were BBC staffers.

Deadline understands that the October executives who worked on Trump: A Second Chance discovered it had been the cause of internal BBC warfare only when the excoriati

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