In the age of austerity Britain, the last thing licence-fee payers want is a happy-go-lucky family parading around their well-to-do Chiswick home on TV on a Friday night. Or is it? BBC1 controller Danny Cohen has played down claims from the actor Zoë Wanamaker that My Family was dropped because it was too middle class. The Daily Telegraph reports that told the Radio Times: "I'm not saying that someone didn't tell her that. But every comedy reaches the point where it's not as fresh as it was." Wanamaker, who played a ditzy art gallery assistant in the series, might want to research less hifalutin' roles for the future.
