Showing 181 - 195 of 576 articles tagged "BBC"

• Posted Tuesday 6/16/20 at 2:31PM EDT

  Rebel Wilson calls the pulling Little Britain over blackface "a bit crazy": "I'm not a fan of erasing things"

  Wilson, who is Little Britain star and co-creator Matt Lucas' former roommate and Bridesmaids co-star, expressed disappointment with the sketch...

• Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 11:23AM EDT

  Little Britain creators apologize over their use of blackface

  Matt Lucas and David Walliams again expressed regret after BBC, Netflix and Britbox pulled their sketch show last week.

• Posted Saturday 6/13/20 at 2:35AM EDT

  BBC will not pull Gavin & Stacey following complaints over offensive characters

  James Corden and Ruth Jones' BBC comedy has faced a number of controversies, including for using homophobic slurs in its...

• Posted Wednesday 6/10/20 at 1:17PM EDT

  Netflix pulls four racially offensive comedy shows from Australian comedian Chris Lilley in blackface

  The streaming service has pulled the four shows from its services in Australia and New Zealand that have previously sparked...

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  Posted Tuesday 6/09/20 at 1:47PM EDT

  Little Britain removed from BBC, Netflix and BritBox over blackface sketches

  Matt Lucas and David Walliams' 2003-07 BBC British mockumentary comedy series Little Britain and its 2010-11 follow-up Come Fly with...

• Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 5:53PM EDT

  Steve McQueen's BBC anthology TV series Small Axe will instead become five movies dedicated to George Floyd

  Small Axe was announced a year ago as a six-episode anthology series starring John Boyega and Letitia Wright exploring a...

• Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT

  British soap opera Coronation Street to resume filming Tuesday after a 10-week coronavirus hiatus

  Corrie, as the 60-year-old ITV soap is known, joins other UK shows in returning to filming with coronavirus-influenced measures.

• Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT

  Charlotte Rampling to star in BBC Danish crime series DNA

  The BBC has picked up The Killing co-creator Torleif Hoppe's eight-part thriller about a Copenhagen police detective, played by Anders...

• Posted Friday 5/22/20 at 1:25PM EDT

  David Tennant and Michael Sheen team for BBC lockdown comedy Staged

  The friends and Good Omens co-stars will reunite in Staged, revolving around two members of a cast of a play,...

• Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 11:21AM EDT

  Top Gear won't quarantine its hosts when it resumes filming next month

  The BBC reality shot shot half its season internationally before the coronavirus shutdown.

• Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 5:10AM EDT

  Watch Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe

  Before Black Mirror, Brooker was known in Britain for his comedic news and pop-culture commentary Wipe shows, which started in...

• Posted Thursday 5/14/20 at 10:15AM EDT

  BBC plans to resume filming of Top Gear and EastEnders by the end of June

  "We’ve been looking very carefully at how we can safely put some of our shows back into production, and I’m...

• Posted Wednesday 5/13/20 at 1:53PM EDT

  Steven Knight to follow up Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Great Expectations for BBC and FX

  Like he did with A Christmas Carol, the Peaky Blinders creator will adapt Dickens' Great Expectations as a limited series...

• Posted Tuesday 5/12/20 at 6:04PM EDT

  Coupling premiered 20 years ago today

  The BBC2 comedy created by Steven Moffat about six singles -- three males and three females -- drew comparisons to...

• Posted Thursday 4/30/20 at 2:01PM EDT

  BBC proposes quarantining actors and crews so filming on TV shows can resume

  BBC's head of drama commissioning Piers Wenger proposed the idea during a virtual session of the Edinburgh television festival.