Award-winning comedy becomes latest hit show to be slapped with woke trigger warnings in crackdown by the BBC
HIT mockumentary sitcom The Office has been slapped with 'discriminatory language' trigger warnings by BBC bosses.
Five episodes of Ricky Gervais's award-winning show on iPlayer have been flagged.
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The Office has been slapped with 'discriminatory language' trigger warnings by BBC bosses
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All 14 episodes are available on the streaming service.
Its two series, with Gervais as paper company branch boss
But some episodes also carry the additional warning.
In the first series, debut episode Downsize — first aired in July 2001 — and the sixth episode Judgement are hit with the alert.
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And from series two, the first, third and fifth — Merger, Party and Charity — also carry the warnings.
The Office won a clutch of awards in its time — most notably scooping a Golden Globe in 2004 for Best Television Series, the first British comedy to win.
It was co-written and co-created by Gervais and
The Office's alerts come after the BBC also
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