BBC cuts sketches from comedy show over material that ‘no longer works today’ - Episodes of ‘That Mitchell and Webb Look’ that featured blackface and Jimmy Savile jokes have been edited on iPlayer ...
The corporation said it had included "the ones that still work today and not the ones that don't." ...
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Mitchell and Webb sketch the BBC cut from iPlayer
The BBC has been accused of 'classic overkill' after cutting sketches by comedy duo Mitchell and Webb - apparently amid fears the jokes are racist. All four series of That Mitchell and Webb Look - ...
The BBC quietly deleted 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look this week. It says the cuts were made “in consultation with the programme makers”. Mitchell and Webb, in other words, are being ...
But they are available uncut elsewhere.
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BBC is accused of 'classic overkill' as it cuts Mitchell and Webb sketches over 'racism fears'
Among the vanished scenes are a blacked-up war re-enactment, a 'tribe' living in a garden centre, and a burqa-wearing contestant in a makeover show.
The decision was made “in consultation with the programme makers”.
Almost a dozen That Mitchell and Webb Look sketches are being removed from the BBC as they don’t ‘work today’. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the Bafta-winning series ran for four seasons ...
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