- We regularly evaluate our material. Times have changed since Little Britain first aired, so it is no longer available, a BBC spokesperson tells the British public service company's news site.

Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliam's second series Come fly with me have also been removed.

In recent years, the duo have expressed regret over some of the jokes in Little Britain.

- If I could go back in time and redo the series, I wouldn't be joking in the same way about transvestites and blacks. In principle, I wouldn't do the series today. It would only make people upset. Then we created a cruder kind of humor than the one I devote myself to now, Lucas said in a 2017 interview.

Walliams also said that he "definitely" would have made a different series if it happened in today's cultural landscape.

Little Britain aired in 2003-2008.