Netflix has added a disclaimer to its marketing for its popular series The Crown after a backlash led by Dame Judi Dench and ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major. The streaming giant now states that the show is a 'fictional dramatisation' 'inspired by real-life events' under the trailer on YouTube as well as the series' page. However, this doesn't appear on TV or on a mobile phone when using the Netflix application.
The Mirror reports that the YouTube, online and Twitter description of the show states: "Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatisation tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign." It comes after Netflix reportedly refused to add a factual disclaimer to The Crown when Dame Judi slammed the show for its 'crude sensationalism'.
Iconic actress Dame Judy 87, called for a disclaimer to be added to each episode, saying the "fictionalised drama" poses a risk because "a significant number of viewers" will take its events as historical truth. Ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major called the scenes of Prince Charles trying to oust the Queen "a barrel load of nonsense".
The streaming platform said the series' title page describes it as fictionalised drama but added it would not be placing warnings to individual episodes. A spokeswoman for Netflix said: “The episodes that dramatise events surrounding the Panorama interview remain unchanged.”
Dame Judi recently wrote that "wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series" would prove "damaging" to the monarchy and cannot go unchallenged. The programme’s creator, Peter Morgan, recently defended the forthcoming series in an interview with US publication Entertainment Weekly.
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