Noughties TV Shows That Would Not Be OK Now

Ahhh, the Noughties. For all the things we love you for, there are umpteen blots you inflicted on our cultural landscape, from velour tracksuits and The All American Rejects to stripy, skunk-like highlights and our seemingly unending dependence on social networking.

You were also pretty good for un-PC programming, too, with shows that we're fairly sure wouldn't make it past TV commissioners in 2016. From an overload of nationalism to unbridled bodyshaming, here are seven of the worst offenders – shows that definitely were not OK in terms of the messages they were sending. Not to say we didn't enjoy them...

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