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07/18/2008: "Britain's Most Popular Television Programmes 'Too White', Says Trevor Phillips"

Some of Britain's most popular television programmes including the Vicar of Dibley and Who Wants to be a Millionaire have been criticised for being "too white" in a report led by Trevor Phillips, the equality chief.

The research found that Black and Asian viewers felt that despite the growing number of ethnic minorities living in the UK, they still felt under-represented on hit television shows.

When non-whites did appear in dramas and soaps, they said they were often "token" characters who were stereotyped as Asian shopkeepers, such as the character Dev in Coronation Street, and black single mothers like Denise in EastEnders.

Mr Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said that all the evidence showed that television was still "hideously white where it matters", a reference to those in senior roles.

[ There's that race hate term again: "hideously white". The more non-whites they include in these shows, the fewer white people will want to watch them. Asians are also not so keen on looking at blacks and vice versa. Pluralism cannot work. ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2304563/Britain's-most-popular-television-programmes-'too-white'%2C-says-Trevor-Phillips.html