Tina Fey asked NBC to pull four episodes of 30 Rock from all streaming services because they show white actors in blackface.
Fey, who co-created, wrote and starred as Liz Lemon in the series about the backstage world of a television show, wrote in a note to distributors that she now understands "that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images".
In 2015, Fey brushed off criticisms about white actors dressing up as other races.
In one of the episodes in question, Jane Krakowski and Tracy Morgan's characters dress up as each other, with Krakowski in blackface.
In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — a show Fey also created and co-wrote — one of the main (white) characters played a Native-American woman.
"Steer clear of the internet and you'll live forever. We did an [Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt] episode and the internet was in a whirlwind, calling it 'racist', but my new goal is not to explain jokes.
"I feel like we put so much effort into writing and crafting everything, they need to speak for themselves.
"There's a real culture of demanding apologies, and I'm opting out of that."
30 Rock, starring Alec Baldwin, Morgan, Fey and Krakowski, aired on NBC from 2006 to 2013, but episodes are still being shown in television syndication and on streaming services including Hulu, Amazon Prime and iTunes.
This week, it was announced the cast would be reuniting for an hour-long "30 Rock Upfront Special", set to air on July 16.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is still streaming on Netflix.
Fey not the only celebrity issuing apologies
Multiple celebrities, including talk-show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, have also issued public apologies for wearing blackface.
Fallon apologised last month for doing an impersonation of fellow comic Chris Rock while in blackface during a 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live, while Kimmel apologised for a 1990 blackface impression of NBA player Karl Malone.
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Meanwhile, there's a push for Hollywood to invest in anti-racist content
More than 300 black actors and filmmakers, including Idris Elba, Queen Latifah and Billy Porter, have asked Hollywood to divest in the police and invest in anti-racist content.
An open letter addressed to "Our Allies in Hollywood" attacked what it called the industry's "legacy of white supremacy" and said Hollywood "encourages the epidemic of police violence and culture of anti-Blackness".
Specific demands included abolishing the employment of police officers on sets and putting pressure on Los Angeles city authorities to reduce budgets for policing.
It called on the movie and television industry to "end the intentional glorification of police brutality and corruption in our storytelling" and for studios to employ more black people with executive, budget and green-lighting powers.
That's after long-running police TV shows "Live PD" and "Cops" were cancelled earlier this month.
According to a report on diversity in Hollywood published in February by the University of California, people of colour took 27.6 per cent of lead roles in the top films for 2019, almost triple the percentage in 2011.
Heads of movie studios were 91 per cent white and 82 per cent male, according to the UCLA report.
Tuesday's letter comes in the midst of a cultural and political reckoning in the United States about systemic racism and mass protests about the killing of black people by police.
Signatories included campaign groups Black Lives Matter and Color of Change, as well as actors Viola Davis, Tiffany Haddish, Janelle Monae, Mahershala Ali, Laverne Cox, Cynthia Erivo and Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.
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