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Quality of BBC drama "should be toned down", say licence fee-payers
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Ed Williamson
17th January 2013
BBC drama Ripper Street faces a backlash from licence fee-payers, who complain that its focus on being really quite good is gratuitous and inappropriate given its airtime.
One letter read:
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I was deeply shocked by your decision to air Ripper Street on Sunday night.
It is simply not appropriate for a publicly-funded broadcaster to develop intelligent and gripping television drama. My husband and I were appalled at the constant stream of engaging and believable characters paraded across the screen, not to mention the decision to portray Victorian women as anything other than one-dimensional downtrodden prostitutes.
I suggest you focus on crime fiction more in-keeping with the tastes of the ordinary licence fee-payer, perhaps involving an unseen and non-bloody murder in a rural vicarage, which is later solved by a nice old lady who drinks a lot of tea.
P.S. Something something political correctness.
Star Matthew Macfadyen issued an apology through his publicist.
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It is now clear to me that we have overstepped the mark with Ripper Street, and that that is unacceptable given the public service remit of the BBC.
For my own part, I became unforgivably preoccupied with the idea that my character might express more emotional depth than a pair of gardening gloves, and took the decision to invest him with a degree of melancholic guilt fused with bruised professional pride. I now accept this was a misjudgement.
Our remaining episodes will focus more on the antics of cheeky but loveable Victorian street urchins, and contain more songs.
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