{"id":366330,"date":"2018-06-22T08:56:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-more-white-blokes-shows-like-monty-python-allowed\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:56:48","slug":"no-more-white-blokes-shows-like-monty-python-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-more-white-blokes-shows-like-monty-python-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"No More \u201cWhite Blokes\u201d Shows Like Monty Python Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Don’t worry, your countries won’t change.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that it will in future not commission shows which only have white actors\u2014and that a show like the comedy \u201cMonty Python\u201d would be shunned because it was made up of \u201cwhite blokes.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC head of comedy Shane Allen told media in Britain<\/a>\u00a0that program featuring \u201csix Oxbridge white blokes\u201d were no longer of interest to viewers who \u201ccrave sketch shows and sitcoms with a sense of place\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOxbridge\u201d is a UK reference to graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities.<\/p>\n

Speaking as the BBC unveiled a \u201craft\u201d of new comedies starring female and nonwhite leads, Allen claimed audiences had seen enough of the \u201cmetropolitan, educated experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telegraph:\u00a0‘Oxbridge white blokes’ like Monty Python have had their day, says BBC comedy boss<\/a><\/p>\n

He cited BBC Three sketch show \u201cFamalam,\u201d which has an all-black cast, as an example of how the corporation was giving a platform to new talent 50 years after Monty Python, which he described as a \u201cproducer-led gang show.\u201d<\/p>\n