Well the Daily Mail is reporting on it as well. And even complimenting the BBC for once while they are at it
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Uniformed inspectors are seen raiding homes and shaming families to an emotive soundtrack from the BBC's much respected journalist and presenter Michael Buerk
Watched a repeat of Coronation Street last night on ITV Choice. The episode was preceded with a CA urging viewer caution for scenes of an adult and sexual nature! LOL. Corrie??????
The only 'adult and sexual' element was a very remote street skirmish between Sean and his now ex-boyfriend, the nurse fellow. And it was a catty argument as opposed to anything else! (several months old episode).
Nice to see Granada are bowing to the sensitivities of the Middle East by slapping a warning in front of anything, just in case.
Meanwhile, I've also been filling some spare time by watching 1970s and 1980s episodes of Corrie on YouTube. There seems to have been a whole host of episodes uploaded. It's great to see early 80's Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Rita Fairclough, Ivy Tilsley, Bet Lynch, Mike Baldwin, Deirdre Langton, Emily Bishop, Betty Turpin, Vera Duckworth and, last but not least, Albert Tatlock! Brought back many memories.
Of course, Stan, Hilda, Fred and Annie Walker as well, all in relatively high quality film.
In fact, the final episode featuring Violet Carson as Ena Sharples is one of the many I watched.
It's certainly an odd situation, I'm sure actors in Coronation Street either now or in the past have played bad people, even rapists, in other programmes. Does it really make a difference that Chris Fountain did it on YouTube?
Coronation Street itself has featured characters who have raped people too so it's not like it's a completely taboo subject matter. I did wonder if it was more to do with him working elsewhere while he was employed by ITV but presumably he wasn't being paid for those videos and was just doing it for fun. The fact that he did it anonymously means he wasn't even profiting from the Coronation Street name.
Famously. the actor who played Vince St. Clair was well known for being a singer too. As someone else said, probably different rules for different actors.
While I totally understand, and accept that sacking him was (probably) the best option, I am sad too see Tommy go.
He was probably on his way out anyway (ie I doubt his contract wouldve been renewed regardless). However most rap would be deemed offensive to a vanilla musical taste, but it's still a valid genre of music so firing him is a bit much if you ask me.
