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Little Britain pulled from Netflix, BBC iPlayer and BritBox over blackface scenes

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Little Britain has been wiped off BBC iPlayer, BritBox and Netflix over its scenes depicting blackface. Netflix got the ball rolling in response to the Black Lives Matter movement when they pulled Little Britain as well as Matt Lucas and David Walliams ' other series Come Fly With Me from the streaming service.

BBC and Britbox followed suit in making the show unavailable and stated "times have changed" since Little Britain first hit our screens in 2003.

In the light of the Black Lives Matter movement, it has brought into question whether the use of blackface characters in TV shows is acceptable in today's changing landscape.

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