A sense of smug satisfaction …

For my sins one of my minor hobby interests is spotting media howlers and overnight I alighted upon a minor but typical one on the website of the Daily Mail which today I thought I’d share with Rusters.

Below is a link to an opinion piece by Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn on the news that new BBC/ITV joint business project BritBox will be taking measures not to offend our Millennial, “woke”, PC-obsessed general public by censoring some of the ‘best of British television’ classic series from the past and/or indeed actually withholding some of them altogether.

I would refer readers, firstly, to the third picture image down which is illustrating the fact that Johnny Speight’s famous comedy series Till Death Us Do Part (starring Warren Mitchell) will not be available on BritBox.

All good so far, save for the fact that the image included is not of the original series featuring Mitchell, Dandy Nicholson as Alf Garnett’s wife, Una Stubbs or Tony Booth … but one of the 2016 one-off re-make featuring comic actor Simon Day in the Alf Garnett role!

Secondly, the fifth image down Littlejohn’s piece, purporting to illustrate a point the columnist is making about the John Cleese series Fawlty Towers, is actually of an edition of – of all things – ITV’s Love Thy Neighbour, a Thames Television-produced series designed to emulate the BBC’s Till Death Us Do Part by openly featuring ‘racist’ comments (both white against black, and vice versa) as a means of mocking and making fun of those who actually held these views.

Here’s a link to Richard Littlejohn’s piece – DAILY MAIL