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BBC drops Drag Race UK

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NotInMyyName · 10/09/2026 11:26

Sadtimes#

“Started in 2019, Drag Race UK brought British drag into mainstream entertainment in the UK”. I think the Black & White Minstrel Show played a similar role in platforming Black performers in the 1950/ 1970s. And made them mainstream entertainment. Giving a voice to marginalised, and underrepresented cultures. BBC

Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Ru Paul and Alan Carr on the main stage of Ru Paul's Drag Race UK. Michelle is wearing a latext dress, graham a golden blazer, and ru is wearing a pink and red dress with red furry boots. Alan is wearing a pink shirt and...

Drag Race UK: BBC drops Ru Paul show after eight series

Future series will no longer be broadcast on BBC Three as the show moves to a streaming platform owned by its production company.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq63816e60lo

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NotInMyyName · 10/09/2026 12:33

OccultGnuAgain · 10/09/2026 12:18

I nearly wrote that then remembered Lenny Henry appeared on the show

Sorry I'm side tracking here.

But yes re Drag Race. Whilst recognising the amount of work put in by the performers the actual programme makes me uneasy and uncomfortable but I don't know why

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@OccultGnuAgainsorry. My sarcasm doesnt translate well here. ☹️

Men dressed as exaggerated woman are as offensive as white people made up to look Black. Vile misogyny that normalises this nonsense on mainstream TV. Im thrilled its going.

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Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 10/09/2026 12:31

Thank fuck for that!

B9waiting · 10/09/2026 12:28

Another who’s very pleased it’s gone! Vile, misogynistic, woman-face hopefully gone forever from our TV screens & the BBC stop trying to shoehorn it into everything.

AnonyMumAuDHD · 10/09/2026 12:25

Thank fuck for that. Well overdue.

TellingBone · 10/09/2026 12:25

At last

OccultGnuAgain · 10/09/2026 12:18

DeanElderberry · 10/09/2026 12:10

Nobody in the B&W Minstrel Show was black.

Lovely to see the offensive tide of womanface starting to recede.

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I nearly wrote that then remembered Lenny Henry appeared on the show

Sorry I'm side tracking here.

But yes re Drag Race. Whilst recognising the amount of work put in by the performers the actual programme makes me uneasy and uncomfortable but I don't know why

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 12:18

Good. It's great to see this male fetish being moved away from the mainstream.

LittleJustice · 10/09/2026 12:14

Fabulous news I have never liked men dressing up as women to mock them even back when I was little girl I used to hate the pantomime dame because the best women in my life were my aunts, my nana, my mum and this was men mocking them.

KatyKan · 10/09/2026 12:10

Hoo-fucking-ray.

DeanElderberry · 10/09/2026 12:10

OccultGnuAgain · 10/09/2026 11:47

"I think the Black & White Minstrel Show played a similar role in platforming Black performers in the 1950/ 1970s"

Except the majority weren't black performers.

Nobody in the B&W Minstrel Show was black.

Lovely to see the offensive tide of womanface starting to recede.

Toseland · 10/09/2026 12:05

Poisoning the minds of the British public since 2019. Normalising men in dresses mocking women. I couldn't despise the BBC more.

heathspeedwell · 10/09/2026 12:04

I am so sick of the people who pretend that drag is a compliment to women.

Since when was being told you smell like 'fish' a compliment?

Lins77 · 10/09/2026 11:51

I see the BBC has an "LGBT and identity" reporter 🤔

Electricsausages · 10/09/2026 11:50

Brilliant, utter garbage program’

OccultGnuAgain · 10/09/2026 11:47

"I think the Black & White Minstrel Show played a similar role in platforming Black performers in the 1950/ 1970s"

Except the majority weren't black performers.

CostcoFanofThree · 10/09/2026 11:46

Great news.

Badvocthebad · 10/09/2026 11:45

I'm pleased

Lins77 · 10/09/2026 11:42

I've never understood the appeal of drag. A lot of women seem to really like it, which I don't get at all. I can appreciate some of them are very good at what they do but it's all a
bit distasteful to me.

Hopefully that fashion is fading (yes I know there have always been drag performers, but in recent years it's seemed to be everywhere).

Askandyforcompo · 10/09/2026 11:39

Good. Misogyny in the mainstream.

I absolutely hate it when 'drag queens' are on reality tv, in drag.

JustHereForTheShitsAndGiggles · 10/09/2026 11:38

Good. Hopefully shoehorning drag into every sodding thing will now also fuck off to the far side of fuck.

FellOutTheLoft · 10/09/2026 11:33

About time. Vile misogyny.