Of all the TV shows over the years, who would have thought that it would be Terry and June which has been slapped with a warning?

ITV has decided that before episodes of the sitcom are broadcast on its streaming services viewers need to be warned that it might include ‘discriminatory language of the period’.

Is it me or is the world just becoming plain daft? A better warning might be that it contains material which views might not find funny or they may conclude that Terry Scott’s character was a bit of a twerp. But really, where does this ever-increasing nannyism end?

Are we going to see the RSC advising audiences going to see the Bard that certain plays may contain language deemed offensive to our poor, delicate modern ears?

Will bookshops have to start putting stickers on works by Chaucer?

I’m getting fed up with this revisionist approach to history. Books, plays and yes, TV programmes, are all in a way records of their times. They might say things we don’t agree with, they may not be to our taste but that’s life folks. We don’t live in a perfect world and never have.

Everyone it seems is running scared of offending someone. But with this - it’s Terry and June for goodness sake. And you have a choice, you don’t have to watch it.

So come on ITV, man up (or should that be person up?). Just show the programme if you want to but lose the warnings.

TIMOTHY LUMSDEN