After Channel Seven's "exciting" medical drama All Saints decided to take medicine into its own hands and insist that Down syndrome babies, like, totally always come from incestuous relationships, understandably they were howled down across the country.

However, the station's apology was deemed inadequate by Down Syndrome Australia, who are now demanding an on-air retraction, otherwise they will pursue legal action against the station.

"Without reservation, to any members of the audience who have found an element of a recent story offensive, Channel Seven apologises," the network said in a statement to The Age.

However, Down Syndrome Australia said Seven had not contacted the organisation and blasted their apology as insufficient.

"We're not going to accept a wishy-washy attempt at an apology that's come second-hand through a newspaper," Down Syndrome Victoria's Catherine McAlpine told ninemsn.

"They must say once and for all that there is categorically no link between Down syndrome and incest.

"We'll give them the opportunity to make a retraction during tonight's episode before we formally pursue legal advice and write official letters of complaint to the show's advertisers."

Fair enough, really. You can never overestimate the intelligence of viewers of shows like All Saints; last time they did a Census it found 83% of All Saints viewers thought they were watching a hospital documentary.

Next thing you know, All Saints will be featuring storylines about how this woman who lived down the street got a scratch on her arm, and it swelled up, and it was really itchy, and it got bigger and bigger, and she went to the doctor and said "Look at this scratch on my arm", and the doctor said "Let me have a look at it", and then he put a scalpel on it, and then all these baby spiders came out, and then she died The End.

 

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