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Totally Shameless: How TV Portrays the Working Class

From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the Jeremy Kyle Show to toxic documentaries on 'feckless scroungers' - writer and broadcaster Owen Jones argues that this growing strain of malevolent British TV programming denigrates the working class. Increasingly, it seems that poor and everyday working people have become invisible onscreen as producers opt to show more extreme stereotypes instead.

English
  • Originally Aired November 24, 2013
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
  • Notes Is the series finale
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