BBC is told to stop box-ticking casting that 'shoe-horns' ethnic minority actors into period dramas – and to improve coverage of the working class and women over 60

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 29, 2026 | Katherine Lawton

[C19fan]

The BBC must stop box-ticking casting that 'shoe-horns' ethnic minority actors into period dramas, a review has urged.

In a damning independent report into the corporation's content, the BBC was also told it needs to improve coverage of the working class and women over 60 if it is to keep engaging audiences.

The broadcaster has been conducting 'preachy' diversity casting in a string of its dramas, resulting in ethnic minorities ending up in inappropriate settings, the review found.

[dljordan]

They’re trying to keep the peasants from rising up.

[Organic Panic]

You mean Brian Boru wasn’t black?

[Organic Panic]

Blacks shoe horned in to every white historic roll in TV but they erase beloved blacks like Uncle Ben, Uncle Remus, and Aunt Jamimah.

[Organic Panic]

The Swedish government put out some ridiculous documentary that featured all the Swedes as black and Arab.

[Organic Panic]

“Jeffersons” starring Michael Rappaport as George Jefferson and Samuel L Jackson as Archie Bunker.

[Organic Panic]

Visited Glasgow not long ago. Nothing but Pakis and Africans on the metro. Hardly a white person to be seen. And none of them work.

I guess the bBC will cast them as native Scots in the Braveheart remake.

“I am Darquavious Wallace and this is Mohamed the Bruce”

[MinorityRepublican]

I watched part of an episode of Bridgerton last night with the wife and was shocked to see a black queen in England in the 1820s.

They could have been historically accurate if they covered Henri Christophe also known as King Henry I of Haiti who built the Sans-Souci Palace (modeled after an European Palace).