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I've been cancelled: A beloved newsreader faces a backlash after making a sexist joke in a darkly comic - and very timely - new series Douglas Is Cancelled is a new satirical ITV comedy-drama by Steven Moffat READ MORE: Guessing game over which real-life star ITV cancel culture comedy starring Hugh Bonneville is about after Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat refuses to reveal who it is By Vicki Power For Weekend Magazine Published: 15:48 EDT, 24 June 2024 | Updated: 15:48 EDT, 24 June 2024 e-mail View comments Right now there’s no hotter topic than cancel culture , in which a (usually famous) person is publicly shamed after they’re deemed to have done or said something unacceptable. There’s nothing funny about it for them – but there is for us because award-winning Doctor Who and Sherlock screenwriter Steven Moffat examines the phenomenon in his satirical new four-part ITV comedy- drama Douglas Is Cancelled. His razor-sharp script takes no prisoners, skewering misogynistic old dinosaurs, woke culture, amoral journalists and Gen Z snowflakes alike as a newsreader finds his image in tatters after he’s overheard making a sexist joke at a wedding.
Hugh Bonneville plays Douglas Bellowes, the much-loved newsreader brought down by his faux pas, with Guardians Of The Galaxy star Karen Gillan as Madeline, his TV co-host – or should that be nemesis? ER’s Alex Kingston plays Douglas’s wife Sheila, the high-powered editor of a tabloid newspaper, The C.