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If the RW think the backlash against their Lineker attack is bad, wait for the Attenborough ...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2023/mar/10/premier-league-team-news-previews-press-conferences-and-european-reaction-liveIan Wright, Alan Shearer and Alex Scott have all said they won't appear on Match of the Day tomorrow, after the BBC stopped Lineker from hosting it because of his "government language like 1930s Germany" tweet. But this looks worse:
BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’
The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.
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The BBC strongly denied this was the case and insisted the episode in question was never intended for broadcast.
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The documentary series was part-funded by nature charities the WWF and RSPB, but the final episode will not be broadcast along with the others and will instead be available only on the BBC’s iPlayer service. All six episodes were narrated by Attenborough, and made by the production company Silverback Films, responsible for previous series including Our Planet, in collaboration with the BBC Natural History Unit.
Senior sources at the BBC told the Guardian that the decision not to show the sixth episode was made to fend off potential critique from the political right. This week the Telegraph newspaper attacked the BBC for creating the series and for taking funding from “two charities previously criticised for their political lobbying” – the WWF and RSPB.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears
The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.
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The BBC strongly denied this was the case and insisted the episode in question was never intended for broadcast.
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The documentary series was part-funded by nature charities the WWF and RSPB, but the final episode will not be broadcast along with the others and will instead be available only on the BBC’s iPlayer service. All six episodes were narrated by Attenborough, and made by the production company Silverback Films, responsible for previous series including Our Planet, in collaboration with the BBC Natural History Unit.
Senior sources at the BBC told the Guardian that the decision not to show the sixth episode was made to fend off potential critique from the political right. This week the Telegraph newspaper attacked the BBC for creating the series and for taking funding from “two charities previously criticised for their political lobbying” – the WWF and RSPB.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears
Yeah, sure, the BBC only wanted 5 episodes. They show 5 part series all the time, don't they? The BBC obviously chickened out at some point, and the fucking Torygraph thinks it's on a winner. I think the general public won't see it that way - they'll see the Torygraph and other RW wankers trying to cancel Attenborough.
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