Nearly 200 people complained to the BBC about Monday night's EastEnders in which a pregnant Dawn was chained to a bed and told she would be forced to have a Caesarean section. Kara Tointon's character feared for her life after May Wright, played by Amanda Drew, threatened to cut out her unborn baby. Dawn, who is pregnant by May's husband Rob Minter, eventually managed to escape after grabbing the scalpel that the GP had been going to use to carry out the procedure. The BBC received 183 complaints while media watchdog Ofcom received 12. Ratings for the episode peaked at 9.3 million and an EastEnders spokeswoman said the complaints represented a 'very small percentage' of the audience. The original storyline about the two women's rivalry was rewritten last month because of similarities with the real-life case of Madeleine McCann. There were fears the plot would too closely resemble the abduction of the four-year-old, who was taken from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3. A BBC spokesman said: "Last night's episode involving the characters Dawn, May and Rob reached the climax that many viewers would have been anticipating. "We are sorry if some people were offended by this drama unfolding, and will be addressing complaints fully in due course." Ofcom received more complaints about Monday's Channel 4 documentary Cutting Edge: The Dangerous School For Boys, in which the head of a Catholic boarding school inexpertly killed a rabbit.
