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Channel 4’s Kiri is already shaping up to be one of the TV highlights of the winter

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

These days a genuinely controversial TV drama series would surely be one with an all-white, male-led cast that examined the problems of a bunch of middle-class people. (Just imagine the Twitter outrage!) But while we await that — possibly for a while yet — we’ve now got two highly promising new shows of the more approved ‘controversial’ kind: where racial issues are tackled in a thoughtful and scrupulously responsible way.

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