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The BBC making Watership Down child-friendly is a disservice to children

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Watership Down is getting remade without the scary bits (Picture: Everett/REX/Shutterstock)

The BBC have announced plans to remake classic children’s animation Watership Down and disappointingly have decided to cave to the whims of easily offended parents by cutting out the scary bits.

Executive producer, Rory Aitken told the Telegraph, ‘while we won’t shy away from the darkness in the book, visually it won’t be as brutal and scarring.’

Is this what the world of children’s entertainment has come to now? That we have to dilute the facts of life because a few mums and… Read the full story


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