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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm not so sure. Despite its modern setting, Midsomer Murders is in many ways a pastiche on Agatha Christie, or rather Agatha Christie's England. That England was a very white place indeed.
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That was my problem with what he said. He was linking the concept of being English, or at least Englishness, with being white. That the addition of a black character would undermine that vision of being English. Since it's not a period drama I think that is false.
That doesn't mean they need to cast a black person to represent a modern Britain though. However the way he ruled it out entirely, and the reason for doing so, struck me as out of line.