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    Minorities feel BBC represents their lives more than white viewers

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    3. After_Fisherman_8769 on

      I’ve always thought that recently shows seem demographically a bit disproportionate for people outside of London. For example the UK is only 3.7% black and most of these people live in London or the West Midlands, meaning most places (where most people live) have very few black people, even though they appear in pretty much every modern TV show. But if you live in London it’s very normal to see groups of people from all over the world and so it feels accurate.

      I can see how shows being so diverse would be inaccurate to their everyday experience for the majority of Brits (white or minority) who live in places that are over 90% white

    5. Jurassic_Bun on

      Well yeah obviously. It’s urban and southern centric as well as upper class and so detests the white working class. Always has, always will. Minorities and minority views are rather overrepresented at the BBC compared to the majority.

      When I see working class people represented the white working class seems to be painted as stupid, poor, uneducated, lazy and often criminals. When I see minority working class represented it’s hard working, grafters, go getters, educated etc

      So not hard to see why white people are feeling more and more distant from the BBC.

    9. surreyade on

      Maybe I don’t watch enough telly, but I feel descriptions of white working class and middle class people are always off.

      The middle classes always seem to live in fantastic houses that in real life their stated profession wouldn’t be able to afford and the working classes are always a bit down trodden and seem to be generic cockneys/mancs/yorkshire people.

    10. Sensitive_Echo5058 on

      The obsession with having everyone represented for every single show can interfere with the quality of programming.

      It removes the escapism element because it’s so obvious it’s fantasy (e.g., a black Anne Bolyn). Great TV shows blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

      The wire was exceptional, but it would work less well if, in every scene, there needed to be a white character to tick a box.

      I think TV needs to focus less on box ticking and more on developing good storylines.

    12. xParesh on

      Misrepresentation is misrepresentation. Over/under, better/worse. It just serves to perpetuate a myth/lie of presenting a reality those who control these systems would rather we actually lived in than the ones we actually have.

      Its not just on the BBC, its on almost all media and it then leads to a pro-minority policy, in public and private AKA “positive” discrimination which some how is the “good” kind of discrimination in workplace hiring. This then leads to resentment amongst the people who feel unfairly treated and then breeds the very racism that institutions like the BBC were hoping to see the end of.

      Its deplorable and offensive for anyone who believes in equality.

      If 80% of the UK is white then a ballpark 80% of the cast and characters we see on British TV should be white too.

    13. Manoj109 on

      Guys do not fall for distractions.

      There are more important things in the UK to be concerned about.

      For example. This whole immigration and small boat people debate. The UK spends £4 billion per year on immigration. That’s like 0.3% of the national budget.

      Take away immigration and asylum etc and it would not make a dent. We would still have poor public services.

      I am not saying we should not control illegal immigration etc.But it is not the source of our problems. For example the Tory mates stole billions during covid on dodgy contracts etc.

      Do not fall for stuff like this. It’s just to distract you from the real issues

    14. Slink_Wray on

      As a white person who was born in the UK and has lived here all my life, I can confidently say the BBC represents me far better than the Telegraph ever has.

    15. Comfortable-Law-7147 on

      What a crap article.

      It mentions the survey briefly then goes into the BBC’s problems. It doesn’t go into depth about the survey. 

      It should be noted that the BBC sells it’s programmes, including kids ones, to other countries. So placing visible minorities in programmes makes them easier to sell to more countries. Plus it helps makes them more memorable with foreign audiences. 

    16. SableSnail on

      I want them to make good series like The Night Manager and Line of Duty.

      Fortunately, those don’t represent my life.

    17. r4ndomalex on

      There’s actually a checklist, if your making a show you need at least one diverse person; disability, race, gender, sexuality. If you can get one that full fills multiple requirements this is good too, like scoring a hat trick.

      This isn’t sarcasm, for the BBC this needs to be done.

    18. nbarrett100 on

      Did a quick random unscientific experiment by turning on iPlayer the moment I saw this post:

      BBC One: Final score – a panal with three white men and one white women

      BBC Two: Snooker – a panel with two white men and one white woman

      BBC News: Political Thinking – A white man interviewing Kemi Badenoch

      CBBC: Shaun the Sheep – The plasticine farmer is white, the plasticine sheep has black skin and white wool

      Make of that what you will.