«Breaking News» Welsh politician accuses BBC of 'cultural colonialism' over new comedy set in Wales

The BBC are accused of being 'cultural colonialists' after airing a new comedy set in Wales is dominated by an English cast who botch the accent.

Pitching In centres around a widower played by Larry Lamb who runs a caravan park in north Wales.

His daughter, played by Caroline Sheen, turns up from England to help him run the business.

Plaid Cymru's shadow minister for international affairs Delyth Jewell wrote that it was 'catastrophic' and 'culturally colonialist.'  

English actors Larry Lamb and Hayley Mills star in BBC's new Pitching In series which debuted on BBC Wales last month

Plaid Cymru's shadow minister for international affairs said: 'Wales is treated to a sub-standard "comedy" showing Wales through English eyes, inaccurate preconceptions about accents included'

The series has infuriated viewers because many of the English cast are doing accents of south Wales rather than the north. 

The writers and director of the show are also English and according to The Telegraph the leader of Cardiff Council thinks the programme is a terrible failure.

Huw Thomas told the paper it was 'one of the most unfunny, least culturally nuanced TV programmes ever commissioned.'

Plaid Cymru's Ms Jewell tore into Pitching In because the characters had Valleys accents and the show is supposedly set in a fictional Anglesey.

Ms Jewell accused the public broadcaster of treating Wales as a second-class audience, despite recently dedicating a channel to Scotland.

The politician claimed that Wales served as 'nothing but a lovely background for someone else's story.'

She said she had no issues with an English program but the show had promised an English-speaking Welsh one.

Ms Jewell wrote: 'As licence-fee payers in Scotland are treated to a new nine o’clock news programme committed to "showing the world through Scottish eyes" on their new channel, Wales is treated to a sub-standard "comedy" showing Wales through English eyes, inaccurate preconceptions about accents included.' 

Lamb said he was delighted to be 'heading back west again' eleven years after Gavin & Stacey aired

The BBC have got Lamb back together with his Gavin & Stacey co-star Melanie Walters for Pitching In.

Lamb told the BBC in a promotional piece: 'Eleven years after Gavin and Stacey burst onto the scene I’m heading out west again, switching Barry Island for Anglesey this time!

'I’m delighted to be playing the role of Frank in Pitching In - it’s a touching, funny and romantic story and a fascinating glimpse of life on the north Wales coast.'

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Pitching In centres around a widower played by Larry Lamb who runs a caravan park in north Wales.
His daughter, played by Caroline Sheen,...

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