This letter is a formal complaint under the SBS Codes of Practice (‘the SBS Codes’) con­cern­ing the free-to-air broadcast by SBS tele­vi­sion of the British-made tele­vi­sion series, The Promise. The four episodes of the series were screened on suc­cess­ive Sunday evenings, namely 27 November 2011 and 4, 11 and 18 December 2011. The credits for all four episodes included a statement that the program was “produced in asso­ci­ation with SBS-TV Australia”. The precise details of this “asso­ci­ation” have not been disclosed to the public, but pre­sum­ably it means that SBS must carry some respons­ib­il­ity for the content of the program, as well as for broad­cast­ing a program produced by another party.

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