Naman Ramachandran “Succession” writer Lucy Prebble and “His Dark Materials” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” writer Jack Thorne did not mince their words while reacting to the proposed rules for ‘Britishness’ in content that were suggested in September.
The rules, which were proposed by John Whittingdale, then Minister for Media and Data, just before he was sacked, call for “content that contributes to British culture and allows U.K.
audiences to see their own way of life and representations of themselves reflected on TV.” A white paper on the rules is meant to be introduced in the U.K.
parliament this fall.“Maybe foolishly I don’t believe it will happen, and that might be a terrible myopic sleepwalking into terrible fascism,” said.
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