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I haven't seen the program, but I do hope Paul Morley didn't turn up spouting his usual pretentious twaddle - he usually manages to be a talking head on every program.
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I'm not disagreeing with you but as the child of immigrants growing up in the Home Counties in the 70's there was certainly a fair bit of it about. It's just a shame that people like Ms. Salter, and her 800+ Twitter cronies seem to wish to propagate it in 2015.
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He did (I think)
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I haven't seen the program, but I do hope Paul Morley didn't turn up spouting his usual pretentious twaddle - he usually manages to be a talking head on every program.
Mostly has-beens and never-was's. |
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He did (I think)
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He wasn't there, but there was no shortage of pretentious twaddle anyway.
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This 70's TV 'personaility' seems to still be the epitome of that decade's rampant racism:
Patti Lee Salter, also known as Lee Patrick. What a wonderfully inspirational person she really is. Perhaps not in the same league as Jimmy Savile, but another dangerously unpaletable product of seventies television perhaps? |
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So one person represents a whole decade of thought?
1970 Equal Pay Act 1974 Heath and Safety at Work Act 1975 Sex Discrimination Act 1976 Race Relations Act 1976 Domestic Violence Act 1977 Formation of the Anti Nazi League 1978 Employment Protection Act My, we were despicable people in the 70's. Contrary to your views, the 70's was the generation that woke up to the nature of discrimination in all forms, and did something about it. |
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Has there even been a clips program that was improved by the talking heads? I can't think of one. I always just assume they couldnt find enough clips to fill the hour and the talking heads are padding.
It would be much better just to have a voice-over. |
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Yes, my heart sank when Bob Mills popped up. Nothing against him personally, but all the interruptions slowed the show to a snail's pace and the choice of talking heads was so uninspired.
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Especially as you kind of got the point being made about each clip in the voiceover - although as I said upthread I'm not sure if we were supposed to acknowledge the irony of the coloured wires in the plug being explained in black and white...
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One product of the 70's that deserves to be abused [and not because he is black] is the most unfunny comedian we have ever produced - yes you, Lenny Henry.
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I wonder what happened to the bloke who was tommytanking? Notice we saw his face but the girl had her head turned the other way. He must feel a right tosser now if this was shown. Who is the bloke, come on mate own up!!!
At least they pixellated his willy. |
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the bigger irony is that it's Matt Lucas , yeah he'd never black-up or do 'funny foreigner' characters !
No wonder all the talking heads were so shocked, they've never seen anything like that recently. Well, they haven't been paid to appear shocked by it recently anyway, before this. Actually, the worst thing they showed was the Sex Ed film. Our TV has always been fairly mild, or ironic (I can't believe they used Alf Garnet as an example of racism, we were meant to be laughing at him, not with him). |
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I didn't mind the original pilot, but this seemed to be scraping the barrel. Did anyone find Spike Milligan's impression of a West Country bumpkin particularly shocking?
I also found some of the talking heads annoying, with what seemed very much like faux outrage for the camera, though one of two of them were able to give more considered and interesting opinions (e.g. Samira Ahmed). |
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I didn't mind the original pilot, but this seemed to be scraping the barrel. Did anyone find Spike Milligan's impression of a West Country bumpkin particularly shocking?
I also found some of the talking heads annoying, with what seemed very much like faux outrage for the camera, though one of two of them were able to give more considered and interesting opinions (e.g. Samira Ahmed). |
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Did anyone find Spike Milligan's impression of a West Country bumpkin particularly shocking?
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How could Spike Milligan be racist? He was Indian!
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How could Spike Milligan be racist? He was Indian!
My mother was born in India at the same time - she is British, |
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No? LOL, I must have confused it with another clip show I've recently watched!
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One product of the 70's that deserves to be abused [and not because he is black] is the most unfunny comedian we have ever produced - yes you, Lenny Henry.
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Our TV has always been fairly mild, or ironic (I can't believe they used Alf Garnet as an example of racism, we were meant to be laughing at him, not with him).
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Agreed. How he has the cheek to complain about racism is beyond me; he perpetuated stereotypes of black people in his early days as he prostituted his way to recognition.
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Amongst the purists, Milligan's Pakistani Daleks is considered hilarious, but that is because it is Milligan - if you are 'wacky' it is OK to be racist,
They showed a clip of Milligan playing a bumpkin, with a West Country accent, and I think we were supposed to think this was an offensive stereotype. I can't say I was particularly shocked. |
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To be fair I think he's said on several occasions that he regrets doing the likes of The Black and White Minstrel Show now.
Caroline Lee-Johnson was rather scrumptious though. |
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