https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/07/senior-tv-producers-shelf-stacking-jobs-uk-industry-crisis
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Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis | 
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Go woke go broke. This is nothing but self inflicted. Look how Doctor Who has dropped in ratings, that show could've been a world leader in sci fi and actually had a great worldwide reach but none wanted to see a foid or BIPOC cute twink doctor
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Bongs are honestly insane in their BBC lust. Like 25% of their characters on screen are Black and every single TV show they produce has the most hamfisted and awkward gay relationship thrown in, Netflix look like amateur DEI enjoyers in comparison.
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It just goes to show you that government shouldn't be in the entertainment industry.
!neolibs
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It's a cascading effect. Whoever the party in power is, corporations use that as a barometer for who they try to pander to. They don't care about making their logos into gay flags, they just see it as profitable marketing.
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0 correlation in this case, UK productions made for American streaming services are just as bad
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yes bipoc representation is always funny. no Asians. black people galore. absolutely no Latinx and then white people. you would think we were still in the antebellum south if you only watched tv.
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There
are no Latinx in the UK.
Asians are in TV shows all the time. You are just looking
for Japs and Nips instead of Pakis and Jeets.
Honestly the worst thing about the BIPOCs in bong TV is there
is no variety in their social 
background. They all have the upper middle 
class accent, usually London, with absolutely no variety. It's the BIPOCs who they would 
refer to as "so well spoken" 40 years ago.
The only time you see BIPOCs from poorer backgrounds is when they are playing thugs.
They really
like casting this guy in thug roles.
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Bond is the one that bugs me most of all.
Everything after Brosnon was a steamy pile of trend chasing shit. Trying to be more like the Bourne movies, trying to make Bond metrosexual, trying 'update' Bond for a 'modern' audience by people who never liked the franchise to begin with.
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When they killed off Roger Moore and replaced him with Timothy Dalton, it was over. He's not in the hall of fame because he's not a good actor.
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