An excerpt from a newspaper story explains frustrations from the family of the author of the "Thomas the Tank Engine" books over recent decisions to replace "Christmas" with "Holidays" in some of the popular steam engine's forthcoming content: "A move by television producers to scrap any reference to Christmas in the latest episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine has upset relatives of the man who created the hugely popular children's character. The TV studio has rebranded "Christmas" as "holidays" for "politically correct" reasons, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported. Reverend W Awdry, author of the original tales about the little blue engine, would be distressed about the omission of the significant religious event, said his daughter Hilary Fortnam. "He would feel very strongly about this politically correct age and that those who now write his stories should not have taken the Christ of the Chri...
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