'BritBox has been accused of racism after it put up an episode of Doctor Who where Chinese people are referred to as 'inscrutable chinks' and 'yellowfaced'.
The £5.99-a-month streaming service run by the BBC and ITV failed to put a content warning on the 1977 six-part series where white actors are also shown wearing make-up and putting on accents as they play Asian characters.
TV bosses have already rejected a host of British programmes from the platform after claiming they do not 'comply' with the viewing standards of a 2019 audience.
Among shows to fall under the axe were the BBC's 1965 Till Death Us Do Part, which contains a bigoted character, and ITV's 1970s series Love Thy Neighbour, about a West Indian couple living next door to a white English couple.
Britbox has added a content warning to the episode since it was alerted to the issue, and said its compliance team are still working to 'review' all programmes.
Spokeswoman for the British East Asians in Theatre & on Screen and a screenwriter for Hollyoaks and Doctors who grew up in Hong Kong, Emma Ko, told The Times the episode is 'really hard to watch because yellowface is so unacceptable now'.
'When you are somebody who was called a "Chink" in your childhood, as I have been, it is so hard to hear that word and not feel immediately a trigger reaction of how wrong it is.'
The episode, titled The Talons of Weng-Chiang, shows Tom Baker playing the Doctor as he battles a Chinese stage magician villain called Li H'sen Chang, played by white British actor John Bennett.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ist-slurs.html