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The Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
More woke madness as beloved ITV detective show has been slapped with trigger warning over ‘crime scenes'
INSPECTOR Morse has been hit with his most baffling case yet — woke trigger warnings for the show's 'crime scenes'. ITV bosses fear viewers may get offended or upset while the mild-mannered Oxford detective solves his mystery of the week. 1 Streaming service ITVX even warns of 'Satanic images' in one episode of the crime drama, which ran from 1987 to 2000. Viewers must click past a parental control screen to watch series seven's 'Day of the Devil'. The episode sees Morse — played by John Thaw — and sidekick Det Sgt Robbie Lewis, (Kevin Whately) hunt down a rapist in a devil-worshipping cult after a jailbreak. One scene shows a Satanist being burned to death during a black mass. Many other episodes also have crime and violence warnings. Senior Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke blasted: 'This is another example of soft-touch Britain seeping into everything. 'We're just going to be laughed at as a country if things like this continue, because nobody's prepared for the real world where there are no trigger warnings.' ITVX was contacted for comment on the Morse warnings. It previously said about general alerts: 'Programming that contains politically sensitive or distressing themes, content, or language has carried appropriate warnings since our launch.'
Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Times Daily Quiz: Monday May 12, 2025
1 The adjective 'leonine' relates to which big cat? 2 Cheddar cheese is named after a village in which county? 3 Kathy Burke won the best actress award at which French film festival for her role in Nil by Mouth? 4 In c 1589, the French Huguenot potter Bernard Palissy died in which Paris fortress prison? 5 Which detective was first played by John Thaw in the 1987 TV episode The Dead of Jericho? 6 Which activists clashed with London police during the Black Friday protests of November 18, 1910? 7 The skin whitener Venetian ceruse caused which type of metal poisoning? 8 According to the Book of Genesis, which son of Enoch died at the age of 969? 9 Which motorway connects
