Midsomer Murders only white actors says the producer

[arista]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/15/midsomer-murders-producer-race-row

"The producer of one of ITV1's best-known crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, has been suspended from his job after he suggested in an interview that there was no place in the programme for ethnic minorities and it was the 'last bastion of Englishness'. "


Yes the producer has said it the wrong way

Its sold worldwide.


I am sure the new series will have non whites.

[MTVN]

Pretty tactless thing to say, he might have a point in that most rural English villages are predominantly white, but it's stupid to deny any ethnic minorities a role in the show

[Zippy]

well shows have a right to cast whichever actors are appropriate for the roles. If the show is set in a place where there would not be any ethnic minorities then they have a right to not cast ethnic minorities. To say otherwise just goes against the whole principle of role casting.

but he maybe should have been more tactful with his wording.

[MTVN]

well shows have a right to cast whichever actors are appropriate for the roles. If the show is set in a place where there would not be any ethnic minorities then they have a right to not cast ethnic minorities. To say otherwise just goes against the whole principle of role casting.

but he maybe should have been more tactful with his wording.

I agree but then again the village is a fictional one and though it is meant to be a rural location it's not exactly unlikely that there would be non-whites there. I'm not saying they should be forced to employ other races but it seems a bit of a flimsy reason to justify making an all-white cast a necessity

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Look i'm black and I sometimes agree that not all shows need to have ethnic minorities.

[Shaun]

at risk of pandering to clichés I would say most rural villages / towns are heavily white. Even here in Torquay, I can't say I notice much diversity (our biggest other nationality is Polish, I think). So I'd say it's pretty accurate to have an all-white cast.

Besides, pretty much every character is killed off anyway so what does it matter :laugh:

[arista]

Storm In A Teacup
the locals said

On Ch4 News

[MTVN]

at risk of pandering to clichés I would say most rural villages / towns are heavily white. Even here in Torquay, I can't say I notice much diversity (our biggest other nationality is Polish, I think). So I'd say it's pretty accurate to have an all-white cast.

Besides, pretty much every character is killed off anyway so what does it matter :laugh:

I live in a really small rural village and the extent of our ethnic diversity is one Filipino lady. I think it was his wording that is the problem here really

[Zippy]

I agree but then again the village is a fictional one and though it is meant to be a rural location it's not exactly unlikely that there would be non-whites there. I'm not saying they should be forced to employ other races but it seems a bit of a flimsy reason to justify making an all-white cast a necessity

yes its fictional which is why they have a right to portray whatever they want to portray.

just like many gritty urban dramas deliberately cast ethnics to portray a hard hitting innercity slab of modern life, MM has a right to portray a more white, middle-class slab of life.

I don't watch it btw.

[MTVN]

yes its fictional which is why they have a right to portray whatever they want to portray.

just like many gritty urban dramas deliberately cast ethnics to portray a hard hitting innercity slab of modern life, MM has a right to portray a more white, middle-class slab of life.

I don't watch it btw.

Nah I dont watch it either but I think it's a fictional location that is supposed to be your typical English village, it's not that unreasonable to expect other races nowadays even if most are predominantly white. I dont expect them to have to employ a large number of ehtnic minorities, but I dont see why it's imperative for the cast to be exlcusively white. Describing it as the "last bastion of Englishness" was never going to go down well either

[Zippy]

Describing it as the "last bastion of Englishness" was never going to go down well either

:joker:

I think he meant a very undiluted tea n crumpets n cricket (n murder) Englishness. Which, I think, is the vibe the show goes for.

[arista]

:joker:

I think he meant a very undiluted tea n crumpets n cricket (n murder) Englishness. Which, I think, is the vibe the show goes for.

Yes its a Fantasy
with a vision sold to worldwide TV as English.



The Producer is not the PR
he has got this is a mess.

But is publicity ,at any cost ,his aim?

The New Series , which starts with a new younger star (Neil Dudgeon)
playing the Chief Detective
is on Wednesday 1st Episode is called "Death In the Slow Lane"


Life In The City.

[30stone]

well shows have a right to cast whichever actors are appropriate for the roles. If the show is set in a place where there would not be any ethnic minorities then they have a right to not cast ethnic minorities. To say otherwise just goes against the whole principle of role casting.

but he maybe should have been more tactful with his wording.

This.

[karezza]

There was an eskimo in episode 1 series 3.

[arista]

There was an eskimo in episode 1 series 3.


Yes


http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Mar/Week3/15953060.jpg

Todays Front page
of this paper is wrong.
As the Producer is not the Writer.


Non Whites will be in the new series

[arista]

Midsomer Murders co-creator to step down at end of current series

'Brian True-May had been reinstated by TV company after apologising for saying show was 'last bastion of Englishness'


Very Clever of ITV so the big mouth producer finishes off this current series
then leaves.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/23/midsomer-murders-brian-true-may-english

[bananarama]

I don't watch the series.......However if a series is set in the past and in that past and type of location there were no ethnic minorities then the producers have every right to keep it historically accurate.......They also have the right to say why without being censored by political correctness freaks.......

[karezza]

Why are there no aborigines in Neighbours?

[Crimson Dynamo]

The mistake the guy made was to vocalise what lots of tv people do as a matter of course

[arista]

Why are there no aborigines in Neighbours?


there are
in the background.

[Shaun]

Why are there no aborigines in Neighbours?

:laugh2: zing.