British films research - Desmonds

Desmond's is a British sitcom based in peckham which is is in  south London. Most of the characters in the film are Caribbean with the accent aswell. This comedy can be seen as British because of the location it is set in. Also through accents and dialect, event though the character have Caribbean accents you can still tell their dialect can be seen as received pronunciation. While the show was not the first black (or predominantly black) British television situation comedy it was the first to be set mainly in the workplace, which provided an insight on black family life different from those seen before on British television. The characters had aspirations (Desmond to return to Guyana, Michael to run his own branch of the bank, Gloria to get a job in fashion, Sean to get to university) and were socially mobile.The vast majority of the crew were also black. I think in a way it does represent British values, for instance it represent the area Peckham as a place where there are a lot afro African/Caribbean town. It also represent the British value in a sense that there are more foreigners and multicultural people that live in Britain meaning  a broader range of ethnicity and race. The jobs in this sitcom are very different we have characters that are in the fashion industry, another who is a bank owner and one who is studying in uni. These jobs typify the values of a british society and expectations.