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Cartoon version of hit TV show becomes latest to be slapped with trigger warnings – because of ‘discriminatory’ aliens

Published on April 06, 2025 at 07:44 PM

DOCTOR Who is the latest show hit with odd trigger warnings — of “discriminatory”; aliens.

The caution comes on a new four-part animation.

Illustration of Doctor Who: The Savages DVD cover.
The Savages is a remake of Doctor Who episodes starring William Hartnell — broadcast in 1966 but subsequently lost

Viewers are alerted to PG-rated The Savages featuring “alien beings”; and “fantasy violence”;.

The British Board of Film Classification also says episodes include “verbal references to discrimination and the discriminatory social structure of an alien society”;.

The BBC animation, released on DVD last month, is a remake of episodes starring — broadcast in 1966 but subsequently lost.

viewing figures have plummeted amid woke storylines featuring transgender characters.

Actor , who played the 11th Doctor, has previously blasted trigger warnings.

He said: “I always thought that was one of the great things about doing Doctor Who.

“That you scared children, in a controlled way, but you did scare them.

“Imagine you go to kids watching Doctor Who, ‘By the way, this might scare you.’ No, I’m not into it.

“That’s why we go to the theatre, isn’t it? To be shocked, to be arrested out of ourselves, to recognise ourselves in front and with an audience.

“I worry sometimes that we’re moving towards a sort of sanitised version of everything and we’re stripping the danger and the invention and the ingenuity out of everything. Isn’t art meant to be dangerous?

“I worry everything’s being dialed and dumbed down.”;

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