Film & TV
David Walliams to be removed from Fing! after allegations
- Newsrooms
- 12
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 12 to 13 newsrooms by 1:24am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 3547 stories, and number 12 of 427 in Film & TV.Part of a bigger story
: 7 developments since Tue 10 Nov.
1File photo: David Walliams
The Australian-shot family film had been billed as Stan Original, with Taika Waititi and Mia Wasikowska among its stars.
PerthNow didn’t include a summary, so this is Mediaweek’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: David Walliams
David Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English actor, comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to prominence for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011). From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the television talent competition Britain's Got Talent.4
The bigger story: David Walliams
7 developments since Tue 10 Nov. 2 more since this one.
- Morning Mail: David Walliams accused of preying on young women; Greens’ fury at Labor; and a statue mocks Trump
5 newsrooms. Linked by Morning Mail, accuse, women
- David Walliams Accused of Grooming Teen Girls for Sex
5 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, celebrity, accuse, prey, young, groom
- David Walliams sexual misconduct allegations spark calls for better safeguarding
18 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, sexual, groom, celebrity, injunction
David Walliams to be removed from Fing! after allegations
You’re here12 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, groom, allegations, women, injunction, predator
- Comedian and author David Walliams accused of preying on young women
1 newsroom. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, prey, young, women
- Walliams and Brand were leading UK comics. Now they are part of a reckoning over sexual misconduct
1 newsroom. Linked by Walliams, sexual, misconduct
The story so far
12 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 15
- Newsrooms and sources
- 12
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: The Independent, 2 hr 35 min before anyone else.
Reported by 12 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
BBC News
Daily Mail
The Independent
TV Tonight
Evening Standard
Brisbane Times
WAtoday
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Age
Variety
CNA
The Mirror
Deadline
Mediaweek
The Independent
TV Tonight
Evening Standard
Brisbane Times
Variety
BBC News
CNA
The Mirror
Deadline
Daily Mail
Mediaweek
PerthNow