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  • It will be on Channel 4, directly following a documentary about Morbidly Obese People Fraudulently Claiming Job Seekers Allowance, and just before the all-new comedy drama Immigrant Street which is a bit like Coronation Street only with travellers instead of Shane Ritchie and Anna Friel, and designed to make middle-class white people angry about all the things the government doesn't give them.

  • the all-new comedy drama Immigrant Street which is a bit like Coronation Street only with travellers instead of Shane Ritchie and Anna Friel, and designed to make middle-class white people angry about all the things the government doesn't give them.

    I thought TV shows like that were primarily designed to reinforce the stereotypes and prejudices which Middle England cherishes and holds so close to its collective heart?

  • Dunno. The only things I watch on TV are repeats of murder mystery programmes so I rely on third-hand did-you-see-that-thing-on-TV-last-night outrage in the Graun to tell me what's hot right now.

    IMO this makes me eminently qualified to work in a TV scheduling department, and I will be applying to each of the major channels forthwith.

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