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Netflix, BBC and BritBox pull ‘Little Britain’ due to blackface sketches
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nypost.comaccording to Variety, which adds that the other two networks yanked the content this week. All three streamers also removed the comedians’ follow-up 2010 film “Come Fly With Me.”“There’s a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer which we regularly review,” a BBC spokesperson told Variety. “Times have changed since ‘Little Britain’ first aired, so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.”The series and film have featured several controversial characters, including a black woman named Desiree DeVere, played by Walliams in full makeup, and a Pakistani airline worker named Taaj, performed by Lucas.
In April, the creators were slapped on social media for a telethon appearance in which they seemed to poke fun of a theory that.
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