BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series

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https://deadline.com/2026/01/bbc-color-blind-casting-doctor-who-review-1236702132/

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Before you downvote this, the article also talks about how color blind casting can elevate programs when done well. The advice given to the BBC is to not be lazy about it or you might do more harm than good.

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Good call out, and it’s an important one. No one is talking about not hiring people of different races or ethnicities, but if you do it like Netflix or Ubisoft does it literally does the reverse, calling out racial differences instead moving past them.

It becomes pandering instead of helpful.

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but if you do it like Netflix or Ubisoft does it literally does the reverse, calling out racial differences instead moving past them.

I’m so glad we can talk about this here. Yes.

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“In depicting an anachronistic historical world in which people of colour are able to rise to the top of society as scientists, artists, courtiers and Lords of the Realm, there may be the unintended consequence of erasing the past exclusion and oppression of ethnic minorities and breeding complacency about their former opportunities,” the review said.”

Yep, this right here.

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“Don’t mention the bad stuff we did during the Empire days” suns up the UK since 2020.

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Yeah, I never got it. My city has a hill called “Black Boy Hill” where I’m pretty sure they used to sell underage black slaves. How can that world and a Victorian/Regency era England colorblind fantasy coexist? How do the girlies suspend their disbelief enough to watch Bridgerton ?

Personally, I hate it when Western media made specifically about the West/fantasy West casts people from, idk, Nigeria and Nepal. The Rings of Power (I didn’t watch it, I value my time, but I’ve seen enough Space Ice parodies to know what it looks like) is one of those for example. It’s fantasy WW2, it’s Western infighting, it should have Europeans in it and that’s it (I’m not white for the record, I’m just not insane). I think there’s a black female dwarf? What the hell is going on?!

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