Editing Mind Your Language (section)

==Production==
===Development===
The series was commissioned by [[Michael Grade]], Director of Programmes at [[London Weekend Television]].<ref name="Mason">{{cite news|last=Mason|first=Rowena|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/5206668/Michael-Grade-at-ITV-it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time.html|title=Michael Grade at ITV: it seemed like a good idea at the time|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=23 April 2009|access-date=23 January 2019|archive-date=23 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223050/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/5206668/Michael-Grade-at-ITV-it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The majority of recordings for the first three series took place on Tuesday evenings in Studio Two at the [[The London Studios|South Bank Television Centre]] while Series 4 was filmed at Uxbridge Technical College in Middlesex.

Using this series as an example, Sarita Malik, in ''Representing Black Britain'' (2002) wrote that "Blacks, Asians or 'race' were usually the butt of the joke", which "tended to hit a racist note, but always in a well-meaning, benevolent tone". She continued that "never before had so many diverse races... been seen in the same television frame, but they had never clung so tightly to their popular crude national stereotypes."<ref name="Malik96">{{cite book|last=Malik|first=Sarita|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wsGArTpQQ0C&pg=PA97|title=Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television|location=London|publisher=Sage|year=2002|pages=96–97|isbn=9780761970279|access-date=25 September 2020|archive-date=20 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120025248/https://books.google.com/books?id=_wsGArTpQQ0C&pg=PA97|url-status=live}}</ref>

The series attracted about 18 million viewers. Grade cancelled the programme having considered the [[stereotyping]] offensive.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5888240/Vince-Powell.html|title=Vince Powell|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 July 2009|access-date=23 January 2019|archive-date=23 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123224741/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5888240/Vince-Powell.html|url-status=live}}</ref> "It was really irresponsible of us to put it out", he told Linda Agran at the [[Edinburgh International Television Festival|Edinburgh Television Festival]] in 1985.<ref name="Malik96" />

===International screenings===
The series was sold to Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zVOtEpvGM5YC&q=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 ''The International World of Electronic Media''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712175610/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zVOtEpvGM5YC&q=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 |date=12 July 2020 }}, Lynne S. Gross, McGraw-Hill, 1995, page 243</ref> Ghana, Singapore, Persian Gulf states and Hong Kong. It was also one of the first British TV programmes shown in South Africa after the end of the boycott by the [[British Actors' Equity Association]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2AlBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 ''New Statesman and Society''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712182152/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2AlBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 |date=12 July 2020 }}, 30 September 1994, page 31</ref> It was also broadcast in Canada on [[CBC Television]] from 1978 until 1982. The series was screened by some minor or independent [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC TV]] stations in the United States during 1985.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ABs5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 ''TV Guide''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712173113/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ABs5AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Mind+Your+Language%22 |date=12 July 2020 }}, Volume 33, Triangle Publications, 1985, page A-36</ref> In comments released in 2005, Jonathan Rigby said the series was still screened internationally, particularly in the countries represented in the series onscreen.<ref>Jonathan Rigby, DVD commentary on ''Die Screaming Marianne'' starring Barry Evans, 2005.</ref>