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EDINBURGH University is becoming an embarrassment to Scotland. Having renamed the David Hume Tower after woke protests they have now suspended and shamed a liberal anthropology lecturer for daring to say things that most people think. I’d say, you’ll all know the case of Dr Neil Thin by now, but the coverage of the case has been sparse to say the least. Search his name on the BBC website and you’ll find, with irony, that the great British Broadcasting Corporation were more than happy to have Dr Thin on their Radical Thinking programme in 2016. Today, in contrast, as 60-year-old Thin is cancelled and humiliated by the university, the BBC, in their wisdom, see no story.
From Call My Agent to The Bureau: the French TV revolution
Gallic television is notoriously dire, but now the British are lapping up continental dramas. Is this really the start of a renaissance?
9 February 2021 • 6:00am
Showbiz dramedy Call My Agent!, or Dix Pour Cent as it s known in France, is a huge hit
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This winter, you may have experienced a weird phenomenon. Even as our divorce from the Continent seems more pronounced, it is likely you will have started to enjoy French TV. What would January have been, after all, without the final fourth season of the sparkling showbiz dramedy Call My Agent!?
You’d have thought that
Emily In Paris would have spelt a swift end to all things French and streaming. Playing on every tired cliché of the proud Gallic nation – its locals are generally lazy, horny, rude, unwashed or any combination of the above – this facile mash-up of the Paris episodes of
Sex And The City and a wit-free
Kimmy Schmidt, even as it became a so-bad-it’s-good hit, could only have further cemented the idea that France is only of use, in televisual terms, as a backdrop for Americans to look pretty in.
Yet France is having something of a streaming revolution right now. Netflix is alight over the fourth season of
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Heist drama Lupin has become one of Netflix s biggest hits, but there are plenty of other French TV shows to enjoy on the streaming platform
Fourth and final series of cult hit comedy Call My Agent! premieres this week
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