They were probably represented accurately 20 years ago. From the 53 people that I saw in the advertisements yesterday evening, two of them should have been black for them to have been represented accurately considering their percentage of the population, not 19. And it would have been less 20 years ago, when they were maybe 1.5% of the population and one out of every 53 people shown in those adverts being black would have been accurate representation, rather than two. You just make things up as you go along as much as reelfountain does. There wasn't exactly a dearth of black people on British tv even twenty years ago; John Fashanu on Gladiators, Craig Charles, Lenny Henry, Ainsley Harriott, Richard Blackwood, Trevor McDonald, the talk show host Trisha, Mr. Motivator on GMTV, June Sarpong, the Trueman family on Eastenders all come to mind off the top of my head and I didn't even watch a lot of British television back then. There were plenty of other black footballers, pop stars, and children's tv presenters too. Go and watch the advertisements all day tomorrow and you likely won't see one south-east Asian face and nobody's crying crocodile tears over that.