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**Damien** · 10-03-2023, 18:44

The Attenborough headline is misleading. The series was commissioned by the BBC as a 5-part series and all of those will be shown. Two charities then commissioned another episode from the same production company based around the series and the BBC later picked that up as well. There might be a debate on if that one-off special should be on broadcast television but it's not as simple as the BBC 'pulling' an episode.

But the Gary Linker thing is completely pathetic. He isn't BBC News, he stated his opinion on his personal Twitter feed. Complete overaction and pandering to a few outraged idiots. I don't think his Tweet was very smart - comparing things to the Nazis is often silly - but it's not a reason to force him to step down from presenting a sports program.

10-03-2023, 18:44	#6
Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,227	Re: Cancel culture at the BBC The Attenborough headline is misleading. The series was commissioned by the BBC as a 5-part series and all of those will be shown. Two charities then commissioned another episode from the same production company based around the series and the BBC later picked that up as well. There might be a debate on if that one-off special should be on broadcast television but it's not as simple as the BBC 'pulling' an episode. But the Gary Linker thing is completely pathetic. He isn't BBC News, he stated his opinion on his personal Twitter feed. Complete overaction and pandering to a few outraged idiots. I don't think his Tweet was very smart - comparing things to the Nazis is often silly - but it's not a reason to force him to step down from presenting a sports program.