Fancy an episode featuring black on white homosexuality being shown on Martin Luther King Jr day! So when black people feature in history in Great Britain it is as homosexuals! What does that say about black people's status in Britain today in comparison with the USA! Channel 4 must be racist because of what little good it does for black audiences.

There was no historical foundation to the decision of producers Rob Pursey & Justin Hardy to cast a Black Bow Street Runner. This decision went against the historical advice of Hallie Rubenhold. The screenwriters never intended Daniel Carne played by Sean Francis to be black in the original script. I am afraid it is just another example of implausible casting in the name of the current day PC Diversity ideology that has become the fashion of early 21st Century Historical Dramas on British television and probably why he was also cast as Gay.