TV Apparently we're all headed to oblivion

[Uara]

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV soaps 'stereotype minorities'

I especially like the quote from Trevor Phillips how if we don't sort out the diversity issue-

we are headed for oblivion

Oh and they make mention of the vicar of dibley being "too white", what do you expect from a comedy based in the middle of the English countryside. There is almost no racial diversity there.

 

[tris-]

tv turned shit after the 1980s it seems.

what about open all hours, or some mothers do av em? i dont recall seeing a black man or woman in either of them.

 

[old.Tohtori]

PC has gone so far around in the PC track & field circlejerk that it's right about one step and 2 seconds away from stringing cotton picking white people in trees and burning KFC buckets on their yards.

 

[kirennia]

"Black members of focus groups singled out Doctor Who - which featured black actress Freema Agyeman as the doctor's assistant - and US shows Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Cosby Show. "

The hypocracy is just way too much...

 

[Overdriven]

I love how they said "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" was too UK-Centric.. Well, it's a UK show isn't it? The US one is US-Centric etc.. Get over it.

FRIENDS being a too white of a show? Home And Away being too white? Fucking hell... HIDEOUSLY WHITE?! Fucking racist.

 

[Uara]

I bet if someone came out with a statement saying that programmes like Fresh Prince etc were too black there would be an outcry that those people were being rascist. Bloody PC gone mad!!

 

[Golena]

These people don't get into the shows, because they are all too busy whining about how unfair life is that they don't have time to attend the audition.

I just finished watching a japanese movie. My next action is going to be to write to the authors and ask why where wern't an equal number of American and French actors cast in the film. Everyone was Japanese!! Seems racist to me!

 

[Lamp]

 

[Sparx]

i really cant wait for the PC backlash, its coming we can all feel it

 

[Lamp]

I'll start

 

[Sparx]

Fuck me a FREE £100 bet?

 

[old.Tohtori]

HAven't misquoted anyone in a long while so...

Fuck me! FEE £100.

 

[Sparx]

pfft i'm much cheaper than that, can of stella and a promise is all i need

 

[haarewin]

every minority gets stereotyped in the media. fucking deal with it, don't see me kicking up a fuss just cuz antony cotton is allowed on tv.

 

[Laddey]

Fuck me a FREE £100 bet?

lol spread more

 

[chipper]

so now you've got to be coloured or foreign to be an actor oh well we can just add it to the list of other jobs where theyll only employ you if your a minority

look at it this way eventually we will be the minority then we get the cuddle and kisses!

 

[Bahumat]

and road sweeper Gus, a black character in the same soap, as examples of stereotyping.

Dean Gaffney's white and he was a road sweeper/bin man as well.

 

[Overdriven]

look at it this way eventually we will be the minority then we get the cuddle and kisses!

Pretty much..

Where are my WHITE rights? :] WHY do I have to suffer intelorate stabbings.. I'm going to sue the race!

 

[Ch3tan]

The article is PC bollocks, however the way Asians are portrayed on soaps makes me cringe. They are using nothing but sterotypes.