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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America; Severance; The Promise; Gemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me

white nationalist Nick Fuentes with Louis Theroux.
‘Basking in the negative attention’: white nationalist Nick Fuentes with Louis Theroux. Photograph: Dan Dewsbury/BBC/Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America: Extreme and Online (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Severance Apple TV+
The Promise (BBC Four) | iPlayer
Gemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me Channel 4 | All 4

Should the openly bigoted be given the mainstream platform they crave? That was the ethical stink bomb permeating the opener of BBC Two’s three-part documentary series Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, the first part of which dealt with the internet-based US far right (the other episodes will focus on rap and pornography). It raised the question: does this really need to be shown?

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