Little Britain removed from streaming platforms

We were having a similar debate around Come Fly With Me when it was first broadcast... https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/come-fly-31847/

Weren't they promoting Little Britain as part of the iPlayer comedy boxset trails in the last couple of month? Interesting just how quickly "times have changed" at the BBC. They've obviously decided to be proactive in the current climate and then work out if/when/how it should return later. It just feels a bit too recent to do the whole "language of yesteryear" like Gold do with that Fawlty Towers episode - talking about a 70s show fair enough, but something broadcast in primetime only a decade ago?

The official BBC YouTube channel had clips of Come Fly with characters like Taaj with 10m+ views that have also been quietly removed in the last day.

Of course this does bring on a whole other debate about viewing being at the mercy of broadcasters and platform license agreements, rather than having a physical copy you can watch whenever you want. [which madmusician has just touched on!]

I believe Matt Lucas and David Walliams have said recently that they apologise for the show and regret certain sketches/characters.

If Walliams is regretful over the stereotypical characters he did in Little Britain, I wonder if he will now stop putting effeminate mannerisms on or pretending to be gay just to get a cheap laugh every time he appears on TV? It’s nauseating and borderline offensive.

I think TV is much better with BAME representation onscreen but I agree there’s not much BAME representation on those making the programmes or decisions.

This from just three days ago suggests not...

Opening one of my dick pics... pic.twitter.com/SGEhF7vOpD

— David Walliams HQ (@davidwalliams) June 7, 2020

I'd forgotten about that one. Yes, that was offensive, I'm suprised he got away with that even then.

I do wonder if this move has been orchestrated by Walliams and Lucas rather than the broadcasters considering how much they've spoken about the issue themselves.

Also if you look on Disney+, when searching for older films like Peter Pan, you'll see a disclaimer about outdated stereotypes in the description as they kept the films as they were with no cuts.

Though you won't find the 1946 Disney film Song of the South on Disney+, as in this instance they felt that not even a disclaimer would be sufficient. Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/19/song-of-the-south-the-difficult-legacy-of-disneys-most-shocking-movie.

Quite. Along with ‘only gay in the village’. I think their stereotypes were more damaging to LGBT people than anyone else.
Don’t care that it’s been pulled.

What you’re doing there is equating effeminate mannerisms with being gay. The two things can be mutually exclusive.

Walliams has also more or less admitted he is bisexual and states he’s always been quite camp. So I’m not it’s fair to say he’s “putting it on” apart from in this sense any entertainer is probably playing a exaggerated version of themselves.

Not really a joke at the expense of gay people though, is it?

Well not in the sense you mean.

No, what Walliams is doing is equating effeminate mannerisms with being gay, because he only ever has done those mannerisms when he's trying to insinuate that he's gay or when he makes a gay reference or joke.