Coronation Street 'is hit with offensive content warning'

Coronation Street has reportedly become the latest series to be hit with an offensive content warning on Britbox.

The streaming platform, which has seen multiple shows aired with disclaimers due to historic scenes, issued the warning on a classic 1968 episode which saw Hilda and Stan Ogden pay a visit to a Chinese restaurant.

According to The Sun, the scenes saw Stan brand one Chinese man 'the son of an Orient' after trying to talk to the waiter in French, and went onto brand his food 'foreign tack.'

The viewers' warning reportedly states: 'Stan and Hilda's Big Night Out. Stan takes Hilda to a Chinese restaurant, but she doesn't quite get the meal she expected. With language from a bygone era which some viewers may find offensive 

The scenes see Hilda (Bernard Youens) head out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant with her husband Stan, who attempts to converse with waiter in French.

When Hilda asks about his language, Stan says: 'I couldn't speak to him in English, a son of the Orient.'

Hilda finishes her dinner with a rice pudding which Stan says was 'good for them' in a reference to the restaurant's chefs.

Stan adds that he loves 'foreign tack,' telling his wife: 'French, Eyetie, Kraut, you can't whack it.' 

Further episodes to receive such warnings are a 1966 episode which sees Vera Lomax die, while a 1978 episode sees Ernie Bishop shot dead. 

A spokesperson for BritBox told the publication: 'Programming on the service that contains potentially sensitive language or attitudes of their era has carried appropriate warnings since our launch in 2019.' 

MailOnline has contacted representatives for BritBox and Coronation Street for further comment. 

Corrie is just the latest series to be hit with such a warning after its release on BritBox, following in the wake of Sacha Baron Cohen's Da Ali G Show last month.

The comedy, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2000, was controversial for Baron Cohen's depiction of an urban rapper and his spoof interviews.

According to The Sun an insider said: 'The warning will be greeted with disbelief by anyone who watched the original series which was almost universally liked. 

'There were some voices who criticised the show for allowing people to laugh at black, urban street culture, but the majority of viewers thought Ali G was hilarious.'

However, the series, which is now offered on the Britbox streaming platform warns sensitive viewers the show contains 'crude humour, including racist terms which may offend, sexual references and strong language'.

Last month Keeping Up Appearances was also hit with a similar warning for offensive content.

The family sitcom - which starred Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth and Clive Swift as her husband Richard - featured several jokes that have fallen foul of modern-day channel bosses. 

In one episode of Keeping up Appearances, lead character Hyacinth and her husband visit her sister in the country and encounter a posh, well-spoken man. 

Hyacinth then tells her husband that the stranger is 'quent', meaning eloquent, and 'quent as a £4 note'.

In another episode, many of the show's characters make jokes about a Polish person where they interrogate his right to be living in the UK.     

As a result, Britbox has now added a disclaimer warning viewers that the series 'contains ­language and ­attitudes of the era that may offend', the Daily Star reports. 

The ITV and BBC streaming service said at the time: 'We review and refresh BritBox's programme catalogue on an ongoing basis.

'Programming on the service that ­contains potentially sensitive language or attitudes of their era has carried appropriate warnings since our launch in November 2019, to ensure the right guidance is in place for viewers who are choosing to watch on demand.'  

The BBC show ran for five series, between 1990 and 1995 and starred Dame Patricia Routledge as an uppity social climber, Hyacinth Bucket. 

Created and written by Roy Clarke, Keeping Up Appearances followed Hyacinth as she tried to climb the slippery rungs of the social ladder and become, what she considered, upper class. 

But her attempts were constantly thwarted by her downtrodden husband Richard and her lower-class extended family, who she goes to great lengths to hide.         

It comes after the 1970s show The Good Life was given a viewer discretion warning last week. 

Episode four of the light-hearted comedy - which starred the late Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith - featured a scene in which Penelope's character Margo wore an apron featuring Robertson's jam since-banned Golly badge.

BritBox has now added a disclaimer warning viewers that the episode 'contains offensive racial imagery', The Sun reports. 

The series' fourth episode is titled Away From It All.

As Margo prepared food in the kitchen during one of the last scenes she clearly wore the apron strapped across her front.  

The BBC show ran for four series, between 1975 and 1978, and made household names of Richard, Felicity, Penelope and Paul Eddington.

Created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, The Good Life followed disillusioned designer Tom Good who, with the help of his wife Barbara, abandoned a corporate lifestyle.

The couple turned their suburban home and garden(in Surbiton, Surrey into a smallholding with livestock and vegetables, though wringing a chicken's neck wasn't up their street.

Tom and Barbara were played by Richard and Felicity, with Penelope and Paul as their snooty neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter.  

Robertson's jam was axed in 2008 after becoming a symbol of controversy for its use of the Golly character.

The character became a figure of controversy in the Sixties, after critics highlighted that the image was an offensive caricature of black people.

In 1983 the Greater London Council stopped buying the firm's jam and marmalade.

The latest viewer warning comes just months after it was revealed the BBC would be editing out racist remarks made by Major Gowen in the comedy drama Fawlty Towers.

The broadcaster said it would remove the comments by the retired old soldier in the iconic comedy series, which ran for 12 episodes during the 1970s, before the show aired in its Festival of Funny.

The move came less than a year after actor John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty in the British sitcom, slammed the BBC-owned UKTV for removing an episode of Fawlty Towers which featured racist language made by the Major.

Cleese branded the channel 'stupid' for not realising the show was mocking the Major's use of the 'n-word' and added: 'We were

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