Harvey

There might be a discreet huddle going on somewhere at the BBC this week about Harvey Weinstein, CBE. He's been a BBC partner in film and tv making for some time, with credits in movies such as Tormented, Mansfield Park, About Adam, Woman In Gold, Iris, Dirty Pretty Things, Philomena, My Week With Marilyn, Meerkats, Suite Francaise, and tv series such as War and Peace and SS-GB. In the pipeline are a Stan & Ollie biopic and new mini-series of Les Miserables and A Tale Of Two Cities.

BBC Films was run by Christine Langan from 2010 to 2016; during that time Andy Harries, CEO of Left Bank Pictures said "She is a proper, proper producer, a great enabler. Christine never raises her voice but she is absolutely undaunted. Who else at the BBC can handle Harvey Weinstein?"

In recent years Harvey has become something of regular BBC chat show guest, appearing on Graham Norton's BBC1 programme, The One Show and Chris Evan's Radio 2 celeb-fest.

Actress Rose McGowan made her screen breakthrough in the 1996 movie Scream, made by Weinstein's Dimension Films. According to the New York Times she reached a $100k settlement with Mr Weinstein in 1997 after an incident in a hotel bedroom at a film festival.

Anyone who does business with __ is complicit. And deep down you know you are even dirtier. Cleanse yourselves.

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 5, 2017