The History of Black British Television

The History of Black British Television | Netflix

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Representation is important. Storyteller and screenwriter, Daniellé Dash (@danielledash) takes us through the history of Black British representation on British TV, both in-front-of and behind the camera. We start in 1956, where groundbreaking docudrama, Man From the Sun, featured the first black actors to be featured regularly on the UK small screen, and go right up to the shows and black creators changing the game today.
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@realtrini2007 3 жыл бұрын

Thank for this! I always appreciate black British shows as a West Indian

@MozzieMutant 3 жыл бұрын

Love this, but needed to be an hour. There is so many shows that got missed out

@pinkkam 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love to hear some! Recommendations?

@TaiwoWilliams 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it. Wished it were longer though.

@byronbenguche 2 жыл бұрын

Empire Road was the first Black British Tv Show i was introduced too as a child here in Chicago on WTTW Channel 11 in 1978 that was the first time i heard black people with a British accent i loved that show

@khiclark31 3 жыл бұрын

This was great! Thank you🙏

@ErikaMcQueen89 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for this . I was intrigued to know about this

@marlysez8338 3 жыл бұрын

WOW! So proud of how far we've come! & Looking forward to the future!

@sspotter1978 3 жыл бұрын

Well done. Keep going ♥️

@BulelaPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this! I have learnt so much and will try to watch all the shows mentioned. Where can I find a full list😅?

@WIM8 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this - really well done

@justanotherguy8588 3 жыл бұрын

These actors and actress are legends

@Delboy0 3 жыл бұрын

Irony is there were more black shows in Britain in primetime in the 1990s than now. Since 2000 black led shows disappeared from mainstream British TV. The TV license Tax went up and but no discount for black people due to the lack of black content. Taxation without representation. Some people say this happened when British channels starting outsourcing programme content to independent TV production companies who didn't see having diverse characters as a priority, black people and black shows disappeared from British TV overnight, leading to a wave of black British actors heading to Hollywood for work because they couldn't get jobs in the UK. But you could get white comedians in blackface being 'ironically' racist on mainstream TV in the 2000s

@carlaconnor8347 3 жыл бұрын

How many times can you use the word 'black' - you lowlife

@Naldo4real 3 жыл бұрын

@@carlaconnor8347 😂😂😂

@RDeng-qg2pd Жыл бұрын

Amazing video

@screennationmedia 3 жыл бұрын

Great job Danielle 🙏🏾💯❤

@kevinbrown-ge6sz 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the best comedy writers in the US worked on Good Times, so when it was remade in the UK as The Fosters, that was probably the funniest show on UK television. I'm surprised it didn't last longer.

@umairs4241 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video 📹 👏

@mrdorf2784 2 жыл бұрын

Missed out No Problem. I was too young to remember it properly but do remember my family watching it.

@SaturdayMorno86 3 жыл бұрын

Lenny Henry,Joseph Marcell and many other Black Brits are loved over more in the States. I wish they would have broadcast their old shows over here at the same time as American television schedule. Widows the original series would have been well received by the American audiences because doing that time MIami Vice and other shows with black people were starting becoming popular and the norm. Please Britain , bring those shows to the US and Canada

@guyafrica7894 Жыл бұрын

Small Axe was a recent highlight for me.

@shakyelarnold7392 3 жыл бұрын

Sheeesh and to think some people assume that racism is uniquely American 🤷🏾‍♂️

@isaholbrook9192 3 жыл бұрын

It's like when get out was released with a black British lead and ppl like Samuel l Jackson made insensitive comment that we don't understand or get racsim in our country. He used the worst example of this by saying it was never illegal to marry a white, ignoring the stigma, abuse and the fact they ppl white who married blacks got ostriciszed from their communities. This country may have been better in the treatment of ppl like us but we its still not taught in our schools. Back in secondary I only ever learnt about the slave trade and American racism, whilst ignoring the prejudice that both me and my brother got in a school with 2000 students 5 of which were black

@southsudani983 3 жыл бұрын

ppl only revolve racism around America

@kevinbrown-ge6sz 2 жыл бұрын

Very few people actually think that.

@shakyelarnold7392 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbrown-ge6sz not as few as you may think 🙄

@oyaami1874 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Coswalker27 3 күн бұрын

there seem to be a date error with the show Famalam. on google it say it first aired in 2017 not 2008.

@caerfaimama 4 ай бұрын

What about No Problem? Was expecting that to mentioned!

@candykane8474 2 жыл бұрын

I give all my respect and honor to superfluous brothers n sisters from the UK much grateful for this video

@DeepScreenAnalysis 3 жыл бұрын

There were prominent black characters on the soap opera Crossroads in the 1970s and 80s which is overlooked here.

@v.a.993 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know which episode of Crown Court Eva Motley appeared in? Was she a barrister or litigant or witness?

@bluebear9228 2 жыл бұрын

needs to be more now. theyre all great and entertaining. surprisingly there was more positive representation back in the day

@vita9010 3 жыл бұрын

No mention of Chef

@eliezerrr 2 жыл бұрын

Proud✊🏾🇬🇧

@stoneyhighhigh3677 Жыл бұрын

Loooovve this

@TheShepherd32 Жыл бұрын

The Richard blackwood show

@user-pn5cc4uj9w 2 жыл бұрын

a lot of people forget red dwarf

@saundrabrown-um1xs Жыл бұрын

I love black British tv shows 👏🖤🤎✊

@carlaconnor8347 3 жыл бұрын

EastEnders, to their credit, had recurring back families since their inception in 1985. Corrie, on the other hand, was so backwards, they had one black character per decade, if that even. Shirley Armitage all of 10 episodes in the 80s, light skinned Fiona Middleton in the 90s and that's it.

@FHIPrincePeter 11 ай бұрын

Good to see you done your research. Willcot was a very good drama and was even shown on BFBS in Germany.

@TheAlkebulanTrust 3 жыл бұрын

It's tapped that in the US although it's more blatantly racist as far as TV opportunities for Black People it's in abundance although there are the few token gatekeepers that always gets and gives certain roles but in Britain opportunities for Black People are rare. But racism has been overt. Never the less and always the moor it's great to see Black People especially in Britain tell their stories and create opportunities...facts or facts?

@o-o2399 3 жыл бұрын

Moors where not black thet where arab

@TheAlkebulanTrust 3 жыл бұрын

@@o-o2399 the original Arabs were Moors and Moors are Black People why you think the colonizers | oppressors gave this new identity so they can try and hide real-story and make you believe his-story.

@o-o2399 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlkebulanTrust what do you mean are you saying WE WUZ KANGS IN SHIET but no the actual group the moors where minority group who where mixed not black and the majority where berbers (the arab group)

@o-o2399 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlkebulanTrust and arabs where not black their more likely to be my ancestors than a current day African and am irish .

@TheAlkebulanTrust 3 жыл бұрын

@@o-o2399 ok now it makes sense to why you disagree with the truth. So believe what you want. Even some children still believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus

@amyclarke41 2 жыл бұрын

kool

@MrTrincent Жыл бұрын

This is almost like a peak into an alternate reality.

@bearwolfable 3 жыл бұрын

“Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

@Baboonfromdatoon 3 жыл бұрын

That's racist.

@kristinaking4680 8 ай бұрын

Where is mixed race TV shows?

@chrissystewart6268 2 жыл бұрын

I want to learn about black 🇬🇧 people more including the history

@kristinaking4680 Жыл бұрын

Me too. I am white and not British).

@kingzalut9639 Жыл бұрын

My friend is from Kenya.Most all the rest of my acquaintances are from Norway and have ancestry line’s a thousand yrs back maybe.They are not homosexuals.I’m getting sick to the stomach of all this bull crap..

@kevinwalker7711 Жыл бұрын

Where is the Netflix documentary on the history of white African TV ?

@user-hu6lr3vr7g Ай бұрын

They aren't British though. British is a ethnicity described by the romans as painted people= pretanni = bretanny = Breton = British. This is a ancient ethnic group that spoke a group of languages called Brythonic like Welsh and Cornish. These people are not British.

@reubenhugo6450 18 күн бұрын

Let’s not attach queerness to our culture please… let’s gain valid power and agency built on family and morality before doing anything else first

@isaholbrook9192 3 жыл бұрын

Little Britain is a satire, been watching it since I was 4yrs old. Like South Park they took the piss out of everyone, I never felt offended cause everyone got some. Especially white English and Welsh ppl.

@therealgodessisis 2 жыл бұрын

blackface has always been offensive, and when black people tell you so you don't get to ignore it.

@chuckb624 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@kingzalut9639 Жыл бұрын

Who cares?Nobody around here..

@johndoe-cv8pr 2 жыл бұрын

there is no such thing as "black British history", it's just as ridiculous as saying "white bantu history". the indigenous British people are a white europoid people. this need for black people to co-opt someone else's history and nation in order to assuage their own racial inferiority complex is beyond insulting and tiresome.

@pretzelstick320 3 жыл бұрын

For all of these statements just replace the word black with white and see how weird it sounds.

@etiennemarquis28 3 жыл бұрын

White people haven't been racially discmianted aginsed for generations due to their skintone... This video is appeciation of British TV's development and a love letter to the shows that have hard working balck actors and actresses who had to work ten times as hard than any white person to get where they are today.

@pretzelstick320 3 жыл бұрын

Etienne Marquis 10 times? 😂

@etiennemarquis28 3 жыл бұрын

@@pretzelstick320 Yes. In a time where black people were treated like objects to the point where they have been enslaved murdered and abused for generations. It’s a lot better in today’s society but you should never forget the hell that people of colour have had to endure for years!

@o-o2399 3 жыл бұрын

@@etiennemarquis28 we you where not alive back then lop

@ImLonelyLinda 3 жыл бұрын

@@etiennemarquis28 Not exactly the case anymore though is it?! When black people have 20 plus % of the British TV time compared to the 3% of the UK population, I think they are pretty damn doing ok.

@ajayd.5722 2 жыл бұрын

Black British? Bullshit haha

@mewesquirrel6720 3 жыл бұрын

You guys ain't good at TV🤣🤣🇺🇸

@wilmaflinstone7650 2 жыл бұрын

Me We squirrel You need an eye test. Some of your programmes are crap

@mewesquirrel6720 2 жыл бұрын

@@wilmaflinstone7650 don't be weird

@wilmaflinstone7650 2 жыл бұрын

@@mewesquirrel6720 But it is true some of your programmes are unwatchable.

@mewesquirrel6720 2 жыл бұрын

@@wilmaflinstone7650 I don't even understand what you guys are saying half the time and everyone has bad teeth too

@wilmaflinstone7650 2 жыл бұрын

@@mewesquirrel6720 Why is that I wonder? Is it because you haven't been educated?

@oprye7395 3 жыл бұрын

DISLIKE

@mattfromswitchsports9679 3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@singleminthugger 2 жыл бұрын

Sick

@theloanranger3122 Жыл бұрын

these are not English nor British people, just citizens unfortunately used to undermine our great societies. It is a shame that our culture has had to lower its standards for inclusion.

@theloanranger3122 Жыл бұрын

yeah,,, got to keep pushing inclusion ONLY in the west... got to love that forced inclusion and diversity. for some reason the west needs their so-called enrichment.