Peppa Pig, the successful British series created by Mark Baker and Neville Astley, is at the center of the scandal.
Even before the broadcast in Italy, however, Giorgia Meloni and Federico Mollicone (responsible for the culture of Fratelli d’Italia) asked to cancel the episode (aired in the United Kingdom last Tuesday).
“We risk wanting to impose concepts that it is a bit early to metabolize (for Peppa Pig‘s audience, ed.). There are no famous phobias that some believe,” Meloni replied.
The idea is to censor it, thus avoiding being broadcast and shown to the little ones.
There is certainly the talk of exploitation of a product made for children, a controversy that has made the rounds of foreign tabloids up to the pens of The Guardian.
Peppa Pig: Cartoon aimed at audience for 3 years create controversy
Peppa Pig, the successful British series created by Mark Baker and Neville Astley, is at the center of the scandal.
The theme of the debate, which has become the protagonist even (and above all) among the Italian parties in the middle of the electoral campaign, is episode 41 of the sixth season, not yet broadcast in Italy.
In dealing with the theme of rainbow families, the non-profit organization Pro Vita Famiglia in FDI requested its elimination despite – with all the delicacy towards its public – for the first time in 18 years in Peppa Pig, there was talk of a family consisting of two mothers with the appearance of two polar bears.
“I’m coming with my mom and my other mom,” says one of Peppa Pig‘s little friends.
