(Dagbladet): Tuesday issued HIT Entertainment a press release in which they lamented the contents of episode seven in the ninth season of the TV series “Fireman Sam”.
The reason was that one of the firefighter colleagues stepped on a book with pages that had text from the Koran – which caused strong reactions from the Muslim community in the UK.
Criticism of the Muslim Council
Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain , was not gracious.
– I have no idea why the producers thought this was a good idea, wrote Versi in a Twitter message.
the reactions to Versi and more has led to multiple channels has pulled the episode, including NRK.
They believed that it had no intention to view pages of the Koran fall to the floor.
– We take it out of your system now. There is no point for us to show it, says editorial director Trond STORÅS to journalist.
dispiriting for Disney
NRK and other channels that pull the episode, including the BBC Channel 5, is not the first to go on a bang due to eccentric choice of manufacturers.
Independent cites a as from 1999.
When to Disney recall 3.4 million VHS tapes that showed a naked woman in child movie “Bernard and Bianca.”
Sexual references
the British newspaper also refers to an incident where a sea anemone perform seemingly sexual acts in show “SpongeBob”.
in another episode gives the main character in the children’s program another character remark” to not lose the soap in the shower. “
Also the producers behind Pokémon, now is back through popular Pokemon Go , has produced material they subsequently felt was inappropriate.
in episode 18 of the series’ first season blowing series two villains, Jessie and James, the inflatable breasts, which led to the incident were not included in the English language DVD version of the series.
Closed cooperation
Regarding the aforementioned Fireman Sam episode, then ended it with that HIT Entertainment said the agreement with the Chinese manufacturer behind the episode.
– We will never work more with the studio responsible for this error. We will also take the episode off the air, writes HIT Entertainment said in a statement.
The BBC has spoken to Mattel – an American toy manufacturer who owns HIT Entertainment.
They write that the Quran was displayed on the screen by accident.
– This was an unfortunate incident where someone from the production company thought they just put a random text into the book, said a spokesman for Mattel to the British channel.
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