Letter to Ofcom

Dear Sir, 

I was shocked and disgusted earlier this week when I tuned into a TV channel - I believe that it was called 'Talking Pictures TV', which lead me to believe that it was a service screening classic movies from the early days of sound - to be greeted by the sight of an Egyptian mummy lumbering around murdering people in the most appalling fashions.  I find it hard to believe that, less than a week after the passing of HRH Prince Philip, any channel should be so disrespectful of his memory as to show such a film.  Damn it, this was meant to be a week of national mourning, with the British people sitting quietly at home, dressed in black, genuflecting in front of their wall mounted pictures of the Duke of Edinburgh and his blessed wife, our gracious Queen and monarch.  If television was to be watched, it should have been for respectful programming representing a fitting tribute to the Duke.  While classic British dramas from the 1930s, featuring the likes of Cedric Hardwicke, George Arliss and George Sanders might have been acceptable, a murderous mummy certainly wasn't.  Particularly as this bandaged ruffian appeared to be targeting solely English gentlemen of some breeding.  A clear attack upon our traditional values and, by extension, our fine Empire and Royal Family.

The screening of this film was especially insensitive in view of the revelations in the Daily Express that the Duke had, in fact, been strangled to death by an Egyptian mummy which had been revived by Meghan Markle as part of her vendetta against the Royal Family.  (It is obvious from her dusky skin that she herself is, in fact, a reincarnated Ancient Egyptian High Priestess hell bent on righting the supposed 'wrongs' perpetrated against Egypt by the British Empire.  I really don't know what these Egyptians have against British Royalty - we gave them back the Suez Canal (which they didn't build in the first place, damn it), didn't we?)   I really think that you, as the UK's media regulator, have been severely remiss in failing to ensure that all TV channels weren't forced, during this week of mourning, to carry black screens and play mournful music in order to match the public mood.

Yours Sincerely,

Outraged and Disgusted (Ret'd)

Tunbridge Wells