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Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.
I'm Katie Razzle and this is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.
This week on The Media Show,
a British politician has apologised after saying TV commercials are full of black people,
full of Asian people.
We'll take a look at what the stats actually show.
Streaming giants are merging.
Will it mean less choice in the shows we watch?
and the TV historian Betony Hughes on filming in deserts, soaps and underwater ruins.
There's been controversy in the UK this week after an MP for the Reform Party claimed that TV adverts weren't representative of British society
because as she put it,
they are full of black and Asian people.
The Prime Minister called the comments racism,
and the MP Sarah Pochin later apologised for what she called her poor phrasing.
But it started a debate about diversity and representation in advertising,
and before we pick up where our discussion on this began,
let's just play a clip of the comments in question, which were made on a phone-in-show on Talk TV.
It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people,