Like a news anchor who's been filmed cracking a sexist joke at a wedding, cancel culture gets a thrashing in Douglas Is Cancelled, a four-part comedy drama written by Steven Moffat. Hugh Bonneville plays Douglas Bellowes, the aforementioned TV behemoth, who embodies elements of Huw Edwards and Phillip Schofield. Here's where to watch Douglas Is Cancelled online for free – from anywhere.
While many proponents of cancel culture would argue that pile-ons are the only way to ensure that those who have erred – often celebrities who are used to paying or intimidating their way out of hot water – can be made to face the consequences of their actions, some of its critics see it as little more than a cynical method through which the young and disgruntled can tear down their successful elders.
