Paramount’s Channel 5 Drops Doc Hours Before Broadcast Over Contributor’s Alleged Neo-Nazi Links
deadline.comParamount Global‘s UK network Channel 5 has been forced to pull a documentary from its schedule this evening hours before broadcast after allegations emerged one of its contributors is a “hardline Nazi.” Nikki Shaw, who was reportedly set to appear as a historian in 1928: The Year The Thames Flooded, is alleged to have posted racist and homophobic messages on social media.
Images of a woman claimed to be Shaw performing a Nazi salute and licking a lollipop with a swastika symbol on it were also shared.
A Channel 5 spokesperson confirmed the show had been dropped from its schedule, saying: “We will not be airing the film this evening whilst producers look into this further.” The program was scheduled for 9pm but a re-run of Beast from the East: The Big Freeze of 2018 was played in its place.
It is rare for a channel to pull a show so close to launch, highlighting the serious nature of the allegations. Channel 5 did not confirm if a formal investigation was underway.
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