Editors’ Introduction: Foregrounding The Comedy Audience
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In January 2011, the scheduling plans of Britain’s biggest TV station, BBC1, were leaked to the press. After the recent success of BBC comedies such as Outnumbered (2007-) and My Family (2000-11), BBC1 Controller Danny Cohen apparently told his team of producers that BBC Comedy was becoming ‘too middle class’, and failing in its responsibility to appeal to working class viewers (Gammell, 2011; Revoir, 2011; Leith, 2011). Attempting to clarify Cohen’s position, a BBC source told The Daily Telegraph:
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