Spitting Image creator Roger Law has responded to accusations of racism that have been levelled at the rebooted show.The comments follow a meeting held by ITV’s director of television Kevin Lygo, addressing how to portray Black people in the satirical show in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.“The producers called me and said we need to have a conversation,” Lygo said last month, per The Times.“We discussed with the writer and the producers about how to portray Black people as viciously caricatured puppets.
What is ok? What is not ok? Some of the answers are unclear, it is difficult, everybody is trying their best.’”In response, Law told Radio Times that “it’s personal”, and that “it’s not a racist thing”.“People sit around looking.
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