Repeats of classic soap Crossroads slapped with woke trigger warning in case it offends younger audiences
REPEATS of classic soap Crossroads have been slapped with a woke trigger warning over fears its dated content will offend younger audiences.
The low-budget show, aired on ITV from 1964 until 1988, is now preceded by an alert.
It states the programme “contains broadcast standards, language and attitudes of its time.”
The soap, set in a fictional Birmingham motel and starring the late Noele Gordon as owner Meg Mortimer, included one of the first disabled characters on TV.
Actress Fiona Curzon, who played motel manager Faye Mansfield, railed against the warning shown to viewers on streaming platform ITVX.
She said: “It is absolutely pathetic.
“I am so sick of all this.
“You cannot say boo these days.”
Curzon, now 78, added that the humour across its 4,500 episodes was “very moderated”.
Professor John Sutherland, author of Triggered Literature, said: “The implication of the warning is that we are the supremely enlightened generation.”
But he added: “You think so? Look around you.”
ITVX did not comment.