PF
Not good enough, you need to resign or Mayor Quimby should sack you. It's not one rule for you and a different one for everyone else!
I sincerely apologise to the residents of Springfield. 
Not good enough, you need to resign or Mayor Quimby should sack you. It's not one rule for you and a different one for everyone else!
AN
Andrew
Founding member
Ant & Dec have now apologised for old editions of Undercover on Saturday Night Takeaway
— antanddec (@antanddec) June 10, 2020
SS
Appears that SNT has also decided to delete historical cases of sketches they've done. It's like someone said before, it's the equivalent of burning books and pretending nothing whatsoever happened in the past...
For sure, some stuff in the past may not have been appropriate, but it's the past. It'd like if Les Dennis randomly said something on Family Fortunes way back in the day, and a random person in the present or future watched a repeat on Challenge and got offended by it and the response is to pretend Family Fortunes never happened at all by deleting the archives...
^ Tweet above.
For sure, some stuff in the past may not have been appropriate, but it's the past. It'd like if Les Dennis randomly said something on Family Fortunes way back in the day, and a random person in the present or future watched a repeat on Challenge and got offended by it and the response is to pretend Family Fortunes never happened at all by deleting the archives...
^ Tweet above.
DW
For reference in case you didn't watch SNT between 2003 and 2005 and aren't sure what exactly they're referring to...
Ant & Dec have now apologised for old editions of Undercover on Saturday Night Takeaway
— antanddec (@antanddec) June 10, 2020
For reference in case you didn't watch SNT between 2003 and 2005 and aren't sure what exactly they're referring to...
BH
There's a Family Fortunes episode from the late 1990s where a black contestant wins a holiday, and another (white) contestant points at his skin and says "He doesn't need the sun!" causing Les to awkwardly laugh and quickly move on. Wonder when that one will be next on Challenge...
BillyH
Founding member
Appears that SNT has also decided to delete historical cases of sketches they've done. It's like someone said before, it's the equivalent of burning books and pretending nothing whatsoever happened in the past...
For sure, some stuff in the past may not have been appropriate, but it's the past. It'd like if Les Dennis randomly said something on Family Fortunes way back in the day, and a random person in the present or future watched a repeat on Challenge and got offended by it and the response is to pretend Family Fortunes never happened at all by deleting the archives...
^ Tweet above.
For sure, some stuff in the past may not have been appropriate, but it's the past. It'd like if Les Dennis randomly said something on Family Fortunes way back in the day, and a random person in the present or future watched a repeat on Challenge and got offended by it and the response is to pretend Family Fortunes never happened at all by deleting the archives...
^ Tweet above.
There's a Family Fortunes episode from the late 1990s where a black contestant wins a holiday, and another (white) contestant points at his skin and says "He doesn't need the sun!" causing Les to awkwardly laugh and quickly move on. Wonder when that one will be next on Challenge...
AN
another_beauty
Can people please stop saying it's the equivalent of burning books. This comparison to Nazism is horrendous.
But you have to admit, the actions over the last few days would not look out of place in Nazi Germany? Because I know in an open and democratic society, it does look out of place. Trying to delete vast parts of a culture so quickly, without any mandate to do so. I am reminded of a scene in the TV movie from 1994, Fatherland, which documents an alternative history. At a funfair, as a man performs a puppet show (one of the puppets is Hitler) , two members of the SS come over to take him away. His only crime was comedy, comedy which somebody (the collective state) found offensive. They believed they had the right. At what point will we reach the stage where society feels it has the right to do such a thing. It already it seems feels it has the right to destroy statues without mandate. Where does it end? how far will it go? Social media shaming is a form of this which has been going on for some time, but I feel we are already seeing the next stage, with police being sent to peoples homes for offensive comedy. It is our right to offend and be offended. Obviosuly there is a line but the freedom to cross this line must not be restricted by default, without choice.
There is not much of a difference I'm afraid between the actual reasons for book burning and the reasons this content has been removed. If you look into the history, the books were destroyed because they contained contents the Nazi society did not like. The only main difference I can see between then and now, is that at the moment nothing is state sponsored, and it is not as visible, because you can't see digital content being destroyed. Just because the content happens to be cheap comedy does not matter, because we know from history that while it may start with cheap comedy it will soon progress in to other areas. I wonder will people wake up when documentaries about Churchill and British history are restricted and altered?
I am deeply concerned by what it currently happening, people I speak to are alarmed.
Last edited by another_beauty on 10 June 2020 7:57pm - 2 times in total
RD
It’s reported that sales of the Little Britain DVD is currently the top sellers on Amazon with each series dominating the top 3 places and sales in total rising by 200,000%.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/little-britain-dvd-sales-amazon-bbc-iplayer-netflix-blackface/
Surely this has had the opposite effect to what the BBC were intending. As they’re now making money (albeit the commercial arm) from the show it’s attempted to distance itself from, which portrays a much worse picture for them.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/little-britain-dvd-sales-amazon-bbc-iplayer-netflix-blackface/
Surely this has had the opposite effect to what the BBC were intending. As they’re now making money (albeit the commercial arm) from the show it’s attempted to distance itself from, which portrays a much worse picture for them.
JA
I have never seen this.
Me neither. I only became aware it was part of morris dancing tradition when around a quarter of a 1992 episode of EastEnders was edited on Drama earlier this year because of a blackface morris troupe.
In normal times we quite often see Morris dancing groups with black faces.
I have never seen this.
Me neither. I only became aware it was part of morris dancing tradition when around a quarter of a 1992 episode of EastEnders was edited on Drama earlier this year because of a blackface morris troupe.
JA
The Streisand Effect in action.
It’s reported that sales of the Little Britain DVD is currently the top sellers on Amazon with each series dominating the top 3 places and sales in total rising by 200,000%.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/little-britain-dvd-sales-amazon-bbc-iplayer-netflix-blackface/
Surely this has had the opposite effect to what the BBC were intending. As they’re now making money (albeit the commercial arm) from the show it’s attempted to distance itself from, which portrays a much worse picture for them.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/little-britain-dvd-sales-amazon-bbc-iplayer-netflix-blackface/
Surely this has had the opposite effect to what the BBC were intending. As they’re now making money (albeit the commercial arm) from the show it’s attempted to distance itself from, which portrays a much worse picture for them.
The Streisand Effect in action.