Classic comedy shows ‘Only Fools and Horses’ and ‘Faulty Towers’ have been labelled with offensive content warnings to avoid offending politically correct viewers by new streaming service Britbox.
The new subscription based streaming service is focused on British produced tv series but has scrapped a number of classics that have been deemed too un-PC for today’s more sensitive audience.
The scrapped shows include ‘Till Death Do Us Part’, ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ and ‘It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum’ which all employ humour that would likely offend certain Twitter users.
While Only Fools and Horses and Faulty Towers survived the PC purge, likely due to the two shows enduring popularity, they will feature a warning about their politically incorrect content.
This reflects a growing trend in entertainment with the Former head of comedy for the BBC, Shane Allen, admitting that the ground break comic collective Monty Python wouldn’t be commissioned today because its members were all white men.
The push for greater “diversity” and more politically correct humour has been decried by comedians themselves, most recently Dave Chapelle in his stand up special ‘Sticks and Stones’, which was attacked by the PC police of twitter for among other things, “transphobia”.
Regardless, if was hugely successful despite the PC police attempts to smear it.
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