Netflix show The Crown is BLASTED by Australia’s National Broadcaster over season four inaccuracies… as they say Bob Hawke ‘did NOT call the Queen a pig’ on their current affairs show Four Corners in 1983
Australia’s National Broadcaster (ABC) has sensationally hit out at Netflix over inaccuracies in season four of The Crown.
On Tuesday, the network shared a string of corrections alongside evidence of the errors from the Twitter feed Four Corners – the channel’s current affairs program – which aired a 1983 interview with former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
The interview was featured in episode six, Terra Nullius, and showed Hawke – played by Richard Roxburgh – saying about the Queen: ‘You wouldn’t put a pig in charge of a herd of prime beef cattle, even if it does look good in twin set and pearls.’
Lashing out: Australia’s National Broadcaster (ABC) has sensationally hit out at Netflix over inaccuracies in season four of The Crown
But sharing footage from the show, the network disputed: ‘While we’ve enjoyed your creative license, Hawke did not call the Queen a pig on our show. Here’s what he really said. Thnx again @netflix!’
In a four-part tweet which racked up hundreds of likes, the show added: ‘Hey @netflix Huge fan. While we’re loving the fact that you’ve featured us in The Crown, we’re in the business of facts and there are a few things we want to clear up…’
The team then pointed out that the Bob Hawke interview took place on February 12, rather than February 26.
Never said: The interview was featured in episode six, Terra Nullius, and showed Hawke – played by Richard Roxburgh – saying about the Queen: ‘You wouldn’t put a pig in charge of a herd of prime beef cattle, even if it does look good in twin set and pearls’
Not quite right: Sharing footage from the show, the network disputed: ‘While we’ve enjoyed your creative license, Hawke did not call the Queen a pig on our show. Here’s what he really said. Thnx again @netflix!’
‘We went back and found a TV guide just to check our archivists are as sharp as we thought, and they’re spot on (see attached),’ they added.
Meanwhile, the third tweet disputed the location of the interview.
‘The Hawke interview was in Melbourne, not in our Canberra studios as you say in the show (although we’re impressed with your knowledge of our nation’s capital),’ the post read.
Netflix have yet to respond to the tweets.
Not happy: The show posted that they were ‘in the business of facts’ and wanted to clear up some of the mistakes in the sixth episode
It comes after Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, recently raised his own concerns about the royal drama’s accuracy.
‘Americans tell me they have watched The Crown as if they have taken a history lesson. Well, they haven’t,’ he said to ITV.
‘It is very hard, there is a lot of conjecture and a lot of invention, isn’t there? You can hang it on fact but the bits in between are not fact.’
Errors: The Twitter page also disputed the location of the interview in Australia – but added that they ‘were impressed’ with the show’s knowledge of the capital