Once again this entire episode has demonstrated that the BBC
has become an expensive, outmoded and ridiculous dinosaur and it is time to stop funding it by way of a mandatory licence fee.
The number of recent serious incidents have shown that it is no longer impartial, the programme quality is, generally speaking, quite dire and that it is quite incapable of self-regulation.
The fact that Fincham even contemplated for one moment poking fun at the Queen should by itself be sufficient to get him sacked.

Auntie should now retire with as much grace as is possible and take up knitting in a sanitarium somewhere on the south coast.

Jeffers, Maidstone, UK

Within the BBC there is, I suspect, an institutional contempt for the monarchy. So such things as this are inevitable

Geoff, Sydney,

Within the BBC there is, I suspect, an institutional contempt for the monarchy. So things such as this are inevitable.

Geoff, Sydney,

I am pleased to see that Mr Fincham has been forced to resign for his part in this disgraceful affair.
I still find it astonishing that our state broadcaster holds a press conference, to promote a programme about our head of state,knowing they are going to show the world our Queen & therefore our country looking ridiculous.
I often feel that the media doesnt see itself as being British & that national institutions & pride are something it can mock.
On this occasion the people have spoken & hopefully the BBC realises that it only exists as long as it respects the values of the people of this country.

Tim Wright, Stratford on Avon, Great Britain

Who cares? Royalty and the BBC contemplating their own navals again. A more important story is Burma.

Tim, Sherborne, Dorset

I wish our taxpayer funded national broadcaster was a responsible to the public as the BBC is to the public of the UK.

Stan Donguard, Toronto, Canada

Good. Journalists in both the print and broadcast media are much given to demanding that 'heads must roll'; I don't suppose it is much fun when yours turns out to be the head on the guillotine.

dectora, London, UK

This is but one example of the contempt with which modern journalists treat their audience. The problem is in part mere arrigance - the BBC is free of the basic constraints and expectations of a free market, and is still suffused with the arrogance of "doing the a favour." But there is another insidious force at play - the gradual professional promotion of a cohort of people educated in the ludicrous beliefs of post-modernism. In this fantasy land, anyone's intepretation of the situation is as good as anyone elses. Objectivity might be impossible; it remains an essential aspiration of good journalism - an aspiration so often lacking.

Nick, Rotherham, UK