All Creatures Revamp To White

[fender62]

bbc against historical accuracy, does not fit the agenda of inclusivity, so whats left...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8793537/Did-BBC-pass-Creatures-revamp-WHITE.html#comments

[jackthehat]

Did they?
Apparently not......still, please don't let that stop you....

[Chinajan]

Non-story from the Daily Heil, trying to whip up hate as usual.

"But the show's producer has revealed that the Corporation was given first refusal but passed on the series, fearing that it would not appeal to 16 to 34-year-old viewers."

[wolf63]

I've just finished watching an episode of the programme. I see that all of the Vets are male as are most of the farmers - maybe there should be complaints about this too?

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[Mamyalynne]

Speculation,nothing more.

[wolf63]

mamy - stirring up trouble, the Mail seems to have mastered the art of creating non-News.

[Mamyalynne]

Suckers folk in,yes.

[Prudie]

I still bet the BBC are kicking themselves. After the horrendous year we are all enduring I think all ages and colours were going to lap up anything that would take them to such gentle escapism.

[Togo]

Another nazi rag reported it. 9 hours before the Mail.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/30/bbc-turned-creatures-great-small-fears-would-not-speak-younger/

[Mozz71]

The Mail pandering towards their readers hatred of woke.

Utter bow locks.

[mushroom25]

//bbc against historical accuracy, //

vet Alf Wight wrote of his experiences, but the result was a work based in a fictional location populated with a cast of fictional characters. any program maker could decide to add their own interpretation - the stories are the stories but beyond that, well why not improvise? on that basis, why not a black James Herriot?

[Spicerack]

As if.....

[Togo]

//Now the BBC, which passed on All Creatures amid fears it would not appeal to 16 to 34-year-olds, is refusing to admit if it rejected All Creatures because the series is ‘too white’. It follows claims made about Channel 5’s programming by boss Ben Frow.//

What a cad. Grassed the chief grasser uppers... up.

Meanwhile.
//The BBC has declined to comment.

It comes as the Corporation faces a crisis of identity following widespread charges of bias by the public and a growing number of politicians.
Director-General Tim Davie has vowed to tackle the problem of ‘Left-wing bias’ in its programming and among the more outspoken news staff.
He is being assisted by the Government, which reportedly sees former Daily Telegraph editor Lord Moore as its preferred candidate for BBC Chairman.//

Did you read that? "The bbc has declined to comment". Haha. You can't shut the gits up usually. Also note that Lord Moore, prior to this was the Editor of(you're ahead of me here again aren't you) Yep The Telegraph. The paper that "broke" the story that was cloned by the Mail. It is simple to work out and therefor baffles the simple minded. I think that Lord Moore is an excellent choice don't you he is ruffling feathers before he gets there and when he does he will clip wings and do a bit of de-beaking.

[bhg481]

Tere were very few black people in the area at the time the series is set. I was brought up in the dales in the 1950s, although not that area, and don't recall seeing any black people. In our school of about 400 boys there was not a single black, so having none in the programme is authentic.

[mushroom25]

// Tere were very few black people in the area at the time the series is set. //

but Alf Wight wasn't dales-born. he was from Sunderland, a port city with a diverse population even then.

[Togo]

//but Alf Wight wasn't dales-born. he was from Sunderland, a port city with a diverse population even then.// sic

...and took hundreds of them with him. Or was he the first example of white flight?

[Hopkirk]

Alf Wight may have been born in Sunderland, but he was brought up in Glasgow.

[bhg481]

I can't see the relevance of where Alf White was born or brought up; this is a story about events which happened in the Yorkshire Dales.

[bhg481]

Sorry - Alf Wight

[Spicerack]

//Sunderland, a port city with a diverse population even then//

Doubt it.
If an alien spacecraft picked up aBBC signals, they'd be scouring the map of Africa to see where the UK was.
They'd be scratching their antennas to find out that just 3% of the UK population is black.

[dannyk13]

It's all about White( aka James Herriot)