People are not happy about the new comedy called Hungry.
A petition set up by Glaswegian Fairlie Gordon on www.change.org to stop Channel 4 from developing a sitcom about the Great Famine in Ireland has been signed by more than 20,000 in two days.
The sitcom, called Hungry, will look to make fun out of the fact that one million Irish people died during the potato blight between 1840 and 1845.
Channel 4 commissioned a script by Dubliner Hugh Travers.
“Famine or genocide is no laughing matter, approximately one million Irish people died, and another two million were forced to emigrate, because they were starving, any programme on this issue would have to be of serious historical context, not a comedy,” Gordon said.
Channel 4’s proposed COMEDY on the great Irish Famine? What I had to say about it – pic.twitter.com/cweGXTA4L7
— Frank Lennon (@DisparatePost) January 4, 2015
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