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PostSubject: BBC rewrites TV history with Fawlty Towers censorship    BBC rewrites TV history with Fawlty Towers censorship Icon_minitimeThu Jan 24, 2013 10:10 pm
IN THE annals of comedy history, Fawlty Towers is considered one of the greatest television programs ever produced. And from among its episodes, The Germans, in which hotelier Basil Fawlty clashes with visiting German tourists, is one of its most-loved.

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And yet in an act which many will see as political correctness gone mad, if not actual cultural vandalism, the venerable BBC has censored a scene in which racist language is used.

In the scene, a hotel regular, the elderly Major Gowen (Ballard Berkeley), relates a conversation in which he corrected someone for using a particular racist slur, by suggesting they use another, equally racist, slur.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/bbc-rewrites-tv-history-with-fawlty-towers-censorship-20130124-2d9ng.html#ixzz2Ix9ih2Oi
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