[Marsh.]

Tv shows are fairly representative I would say.

Isn't it a bit like going to Africa and whinging "Where are all the white people, this isn't fair?"

We're a predominantly white country so what does he expect? Fair enough if he wants more shows with black leads or whatever but picking out shows like Miranda (with about 4 or 5 characters) is a bit pathetic. Do we need at least one black character in every show to make him happy.

[smeagol]

Lenny who. the guy who has never been funny. he must be short of attention

what a load of crap.

what year is this sometimes i wonder what some of these twats are on did he just watch 12 years a slave and think its a different century lol.

[InOne]

I'm sure we had this same thread about a year ago

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by InOne

I'm sure we had this same thread about a year ago

I think so too, just before Comic Relief!

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I think so too, just before Comic Relief!

Bloody sport relief and now comic relief


I know they're charities and what not but if anyone watched that 'The trouble with aid' documentary on BBC4 a while ago they'd see exactly where the money does or doesn't go.

[arista]

Originally Posted by InOne

I'm sure we had this same thread about a year ago

No this is Today
in the DM.


Dear old Lenny having Yet Again
a moan

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by InOne

I'm sure we had this same thread about a year ago

how did that one end? save us the suspense.

[InOne]

Originally Posted by lostalex

how did that one end? save us the suspense.

Tragically like most threads on here

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by InOne

I'm sure we had this same thread about a year ago

you're thinking about the poster who made a thread complaining about eastenders focusing too much on white characters, that was a month ago

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Salman!

you're thinking about the poster who made a thread complaining about eastenders focusing too much on white characters, that was a month ago

No. It was one in here.

[Saph]

they havent watched flavor of love

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Saph

they havent watched flavor of love

[Jarrod]

We're doing this in Sociology at the moment like how there is a lack of Ethnic Minority in TV in Britain. He's right though, if you look at soap operas for example - the amount of Ethnic Minority people that appear in Coronation Street, there's hardly any for a soap that's supposed to be set in a very multi-cultural area.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Jarrod

We're doing this in Sociology at the moment like how there is a lack of Ethnic Minority in TV in Britain. He's right though, if you look at soap operas for example - the amount of Ethnic Minority people that appear in Coronation Street, there's hardly any for a soap that's supposed to be set in a very multi-cultural area.

what about regional accents? how many irish in eastenders, how many welsh in coronation street...what about disabled? how many in any of these daily shows? theyre masisvely under represented way way way way way way way way moreso than black people or anyone else

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by the truth

what about regional accents? how many irish in eastenders, how many welsh in coronation street...what about disabled? how many in any of these daily shows? theyre masisvely under represented way way way way way way way way moreso than black people or anyone else

That's like saying "where's all the german accents?".

Put a German show on. If you want Welsh accents then watch welsh TV.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

That's like saying "where's all the german accents?".

Put a German show on. If you want Welsh accents then watch welsh TV.

no its not. we all belong to the same country. your point is utter nonsense

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by the truth

no its not. we all belong to the same country. your point is utter nonsense

I think you'll find Wales and England are separate countries.

What I'm saying is that if you have a show set in Manchester then you're not going to get a big "representation" of Welsh or Irish accents.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by the truth

what about regional accents? how many irish in eastenders, how many welsh in coronation street...what about disabled? how many in any of these daily shows? theyre masisvely under represented way way way way way way way way moreso than black people or anyone else

Fair comment.

[MTVN]

Corrie's not set in anywhere near as multicultural an area as Eastenders is tbf

[lostalex]

so basically, there's a lot of white people in Britain, get over it.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

so basically, there's a lot of white people in Britain, get over it.

Exactly.

It's like going to Africa and whinging about the lack of white people. People are far too touchy.

[Vicky.]

Is it not worse, to cast someone solely because they are a minority? Or to specifically write in parts that wouldn't be there otherwise just to get the token minority on the show? Really...I think thats just as bad

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Is it not worse, to cast someone solely because they are a minority? Or to specifically write in parts that wouldn't be there otherwise just to get the token minority on the show? Really...I think thats just as bad

Exactly. Positive discrimination they call it.

[Jarrod]

I'm just quoting the OCR textbook here don't shoot me.

[Z]

Awkwardly slotting in ethnic minorities into programs where they really don't belong is dumb in my opinion. Adding in a character whose origins are for example from the Indian subcontinent into a period drama set in, I dunno, Britain in the 1700s, would be unrealistic because while there may well have been some people from that part of the world living in Britain at that time, that's not what people think of when they think of that period of time in Britain. I agree that programs set in London should be representative of what London is actually like and not just having token Asian families or Afro-Caribbean families just to pacify people. Have multicultural families and relationships and storylines that don't revolve around their multicultural-ness. Shoehorning it in is phony and not true to life. So while I can see his point and to some extent agree with him, I think what he's saying only applies to certain programs. When I lived in Germany I was friends with a white girl from the Scottish borders and a black girl from London. The white girl said that she'd never actually met a black person until she went to university and had never been friends with anyone who wasn't white until she'd met the black girl from London. Of course she hasn't! She lives in a rural part of the country that isn't very likely to have any kind of immigration.