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Re: Midsomer Murders producer suspended over race row
To fully quote the producer, from the OP link....
Quote:
Mr True-May told the magazine: "We are a cosmopolitan society in this country, but if you watch Midsomer you wouldn't think so.
"I've never been picked up on that, but quite honestly I wouldn't want to change it," he said.
Of his all-white portrayal of rural life in Britain's murder capital he said: "Maybe I'm not politically correct."
The programme - which has run for 14 series - appealed to a "certain audience", he said.
Mr True-May added: "We just don't have ethnic minorities involved. Because it wouldn't be the English village with them. It just wouldn't work."
Asked why "Englishness" could not include other races who are well represented in modern society, he said: "Well, it should do, and maybe I'm not politically correct.
"I'm trying to make something that appeals to a certain audience, which seems to succeed. And I don't want to change it."
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