One of the funniest lines in Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature show comes about three quarters of the way in when, in the middle of a particularly politically incorrect monologue (about Aids, as I recall), he pauses, does that wolfish grin of his and says: ‘Don’t worry, Netflix have already bought this.’
Ha. I imagine there may well be a few squeaky bums over at the streaming giant when it surveys the avalanche of predictable outrage that his show has provoked.
Who knows, it might even be…