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What’s up with all these British TV dramas featuring some version of a Muslim terrorist plot? McMafia is about Russians, still features Muslim terrorists. Next of Kin (oh dear, oh dear) I was really excited about Collateral....but guess what? Oh yes. This time they’re Syrians. UK...get your people

João Patrício @jofazepa

@Lexialex People are always looking for enemies. Fear sells and TV and cinema, specially commercial one knows that. In the past there were the Nazis, the communists, both Russians and Asian, then you had the IRA, the Islamic. We look at mainstream TV and is all the same the stories are the same. No added value. They just change the object of fear and put a different context. TV feeds from people anxieties and if TV in the UK reflects that, means it sells. TV does no public service