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Douglas Is Cancelled: Is it the critics who are cancelling new ITV drama?https:\/\/t.co\/APdd1l6DVh<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/LUDjJNhvQv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Herald (@heraldscotland) July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Predictably enough, the summer\u2019s most divisive (so far) television drama is about a subject which is in itself endlessly divisive: cancel culture, defined by Collins Dictionary as \u201ca social climate in which a person\u2026 is likely to be ostracized in response to a perceived wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other definitions are available, as the BBC is fond of saying.<\/p>\n

The cancelled Douglas in question is fictitious news presenter Douglas Bellowes and, appropriately, the four-part series is called Douglas Is Cancelled.
And Douglas\u2019s perceived wrongdoing? Telling a sexist joke at a wedding and being outed on social media.<\/b><\/p>\n

But what it\u2019s really about (if you stuck around past first episode)<\/b>
[<\/span><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>A man who saw his female friend was terrified and left her in the hotel room with his boss to fend for herself so she decides to bring him down. And she succeeds.
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The series is a Hartswood Films production for ITV and has been written by Paisley-born TV behemoth Steven Moffat.<\/p>\n

For context, he is now 62 and married to producer Sue Vertue, daughter of uber-producer (and Hartswood Films founder) Beryl Vertue. \u201cI just sat down and wrote this,\u201d he has said. \u201cDidn\u2019t even tell anyone what I was doing.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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