Peter Kay turned down a Netflix offer for his early 2000s sitcom Phoenix Nights because the streamer wanted to add a trigger warning, the British comedian and actor has claimed.

Speaking on UK radio station Capital this morning, Kay claimed the streamer had contacted him about licensing the show, which was officially titled Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights and ran for two seasons in 2001 and 2002 on Channel 4. He also said Netflix sent him an air fryer, and suggested with his tongue in his cheek that this could have been as a means of sweetening a deal.

“They got in touch with me last year because they wanted to put Phoenix Nights on Netflix,” he said. After receiving the paperwork on an agreement, Kay noticed a stipulation to add a trigger warning at the beginning of the episodes.

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