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With the gender reversal re-makes/re-boots I find myself rolling my eyes and sighing loudly. Rather than hold up the PC remakes to the
original how about writing specifically for the gender/ethnic actors. And by specifically I mean original. If the remakes fail then makers
can say that the audiences are not open minded or still hold onto their prejudices.
Dara O'Briain was castigated with his response to the BBC's announcement that there would be at least one female on quiz shows. What
the host of Robot Wars and Mock the week meant that that the BBC should have just implemented the new directive and that by telling
us of the policy can make the viewers regard the line up as "So that's the woman for that show".
I am suspicious of being told how forward thinking policies are. What these policies are in danger of is that whom ever gets the role,
the place on the panel, or the chairman's chair, will be wondering I have got this job because I am the right person or did I just tick all
the boxes and if the person in question is thinking this then so are the viewers.
I write as a person who went to a Jewish school. The walk to the tube station in more cases than I care to remember had me beaten up, bottles thrown from windows, and threats to be stabbed. This was often accompanied by the words "Go home Yid ".
The new producers of the next Star Trek series for the small screen have announced that the lead character will be a female of a yet to be
specified ethnic group. I do wonder if the new programme makers have ever watched the original source material and the spin offs, or have
even seen a writers guide.
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Crosby
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LeVar
Burton
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Gates
McFadden
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Michael
Dorn
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Marina
Sirtis
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Whoopi
Goldberg
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Avery
Brooks
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Cirroc
Lofton
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Terry
Farrell
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Nicole
de Boer
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Nana
Visitor
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Kate
Mulgrew
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Robert
Beltran
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Roxann
Dawson
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Jennifer
Lien
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Jeri
Ryan
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Garrett
Wang
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Tim
Russ
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Jolene
Blalock
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Linda
Park
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Anthony
Montgomery
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William Shatner
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Leonard Nimoy
Both Jewish
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