Paramount Global’s UK network Channel 5 has been forced to pull a documentary from its schedule this evening hours before broadcast after allegations emerged one of its contributors is a “hardline Nazi.”
Nikki Shaw, who was reportedly set to appear as a historian in 1928: The Year The Thames Flooded, is alleged to have posted racist and homophobic messages on social media. Images of a woman claimed to be Shaw performing a Nazi salute and licking a lollipop with a swastika symbol on it were also shared.
A Channel 5 spokesperson confirmed the show had been dropped from its schedule, saying: “We will not be airing the film this evening whilst producers look into this further.”
The program was scheduled for 9pm but a re-run of Beast from the East: The Big Freeze of 2018 was played in its place. It is rare for a channel to pull a show so close to launch,...
Nikki Shaw, who was reportedly set to appear as a historian in 1928: The Year The Thames Flooded, is alleged to have posted racist and homophobic messages on social media. Images of a woman claimed to be Shaw performing a Nazi salute and licking a lollipop with a swastika symbol on it were also shared.
A Channel 5 spokesperson confirmed the show had been dropped from its schedule, saying: “We will not be airing the film this evening whilst producers look into this further.”
The program was scheduled for 9pm but a re-run of Beast from the East: The Big Freeze of 2018 was played in its place. It is rare for a channel to pull a show so close to launch,...
- 11/26/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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