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Too much crime, too many male detectives?
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/// Television is in danger of airing programmes with "too many male detectives" and "too much crime", according to the BBC1 controller, Danny Cohen.///
What does he actually mean since television will still be in danger of airing programmes with "too much crime", even if they substitute male detectives for female detectives, since you can't have one without the other?
Interesting to note however that next Thursday 9.00pm BBC2, the BBC are launching yet another crime series called 'The Shadow Line', which once again employs a male detective.
But this time the detective happens to be black, so I suppose that is OK in the eyes of the 'Political Correct' BBC?
/// Television is in danger of airing programmes with "too many male detectives" and "too much crime", according to the BBC1 controller, Danny Cohen.///
What does he actually mean since television will still be in danger of airing programmes with "too much crime", even if they substitute male detectives for female detectives, since you can't have one without the other?
Interesting to note however that next Thursday 9.00pm BBC2, the BBC are launching yet another crime series called 'The Shadow Line', which once again employs a male detective.
But this time the detective happens to be black, so I suppose that is OK in the eyes of the 'Political Correct' BBC?
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Couldn't agree more regarding too many cooking programmes.
But I must take you to task regarding your 'darkie' jibe, I wasn't making a direct racial issue over this.
Just as I was also not being sexist by mentioned females, I only wanted to get the political correctness point over.
/// They have axes an Italian detective and commissioned a British one in his place, ///
Not sure where you are coming from here, who are the Italian detective, and the British ones, you are referring to?
Couldn't agree more regarding too many cooking programmes.
But I must take you to task regarding your 'darkie' jibe, I wasn't making a direct racial issue over this.
Just as I was also not being sexist by mentioned females, I only wanted to get the political correctness point over.
/// They have axes an Italian detective and commissioned a British one in his place, ///
Not sure where you are coming from here, who are the Italian detective, and the British ones, you are referring to?
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He probably just means exactly what he says - there are too many crime-related programmes and male detectives. Without reading any more of his comment, it doesn't sound to me like a political point, any more than it would if I said there are too many property programmes. I think he just means there's an over-reliance on crime dramas, most of which feature male lead detectives, and I'd agree with him. Male crime-fighters, struggling with their own inner demons... give me a break.
If the BBC was as 'PC' as the OP claims, we'd already have our quota of black female detectives and a line of black male ones, which apart from this new one and Luther, we haven't really had, have we?
If the BBC was as 'PC' as the OP claims, we'd already have our quota of black female detectives and a line of black male ones, which apart from this new one and Luther, we haven't really had, have we?
Were I, he, I'd be more concerned with too much garbage than with too much crime. I swear I used to find more interesting things to watch when we had 3 channels than I find now with, how many channels is it ? Umpteen ?
And the BBC aren't immune. It's not like I leave all the others to watch them full time.
And the BBC aren't immune. It's not like I leave all the others to watch them full time.
I remember when there was criticism of "The Bill" (I think, by the Police Federation, or some such) for the way it portrayed police officers. They said they wanted it to more accurately reflect real life. In those days, there used to be one or two crimes per episode, which were usually solved in the same episode, and I remember wondering how popular the series would be if 98% of the crimes remained unsolved.
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