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Netflix, BBC Pull U.K. Comedy 'Little Britain' Over Use of Blackface

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British sketch comedy Little Britain — a hugely popular show in the mid-2000s and one that made household names in the U.K. of its creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams — has been pulled from Netflix, BritBox and the BBC's iPlayer over concerns about racism, in particularly the use of blackface on several characters.

Netflix confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the show — which first aired in 2003 on BBC Three — had been removed from the platform on Friday alongside Come Fly With Me, the comedy follow-up from Lucas and Walliams (and one also featuring characters using blackface). "There’s a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer, which we regularly review,” added a spokesperson for the BBC.

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