new tv remake of love thy neighbour with racial roles reversed?

it's madness gone politically correct!

It's a role-reversal remake that contains the black characters (middle class Conservatives) and the white characters (gobby, poor) in exactly the same roles! Awesome.

do the white folks accidentally end up dressing up as zulus though?

As long as there's no second series of Meet the Magoons, I'm good.

i'm still waiting for a space movie where the good aliens beat the nasty parasitic humans.

fuuuuck. must leave country.

Cue outraged response in every right-wing paper.

A black middle-class, professional couple will be up in arms when a white, working class couple (who have recently won the lottery) move next door. Sebastian (a black architect) will be played by Derek Laud who may be better remembered as the Big Brother contestant

the fact that it will be irredeemably shit is more important than the total lack of controversy implicit in the pitch.

I dunno, implying that Black professionals have novelty/comedy value in and of themselves sounds pretty controversial to me. Also stupid.

First rule of comedy: It doesn't work from an assumed position of strength.

The original series, both couples were working class, same factory (I think), and same pub/club/environment. This series: Who are the comic figures? The 'poor' people who won the lottery? The 'professional class' that have the chavs next door lowering the tone of the place?

It seems, by having Derek Laud as the lead character, he will be the figure of fun. Again.

and comic chavs just aren't funny.