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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
3) With hindsight several programs shouldn't have been made It aint half hot mum & mind your language are just two that i can think of, Fawlty Towers is up there as well. In the past few days Keith Lemon & David Walliams have come out and said they wouldn't make those programs now.
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You can’t look back and apply today’s standards to historical shows, what you should do is rejoice at how far we have come. But it has taken a generation. Those programmes were made by people born in the ‘40’s, today’s programmes are made by those born in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s.
I watched Trading Places the other week, the much beloved Eddie Murphy comedy and there things in that , racially and sexually, that would not be tolerated today.