Midsomer murders is too white
Discussion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12741847
Brian True-May has said:
Me, personally, I enjoy the show and I'm black - it is a show that has a certain village feel to it and it's enjoyable in it's current format.
It is very stereotypical and it's enjoyable just the way it is.
I wonder how it would be taken if there was a "token black guy" or if that black guy was the murderer (more stereo types) or the victim (again, stereotyping) or if he was a "gardener" (more stereotyping) - I think to change it would lead to a hiding to nothing...
Or am I the only one that cares?
Brian True-May has said:
B T-M said:
The drama "wouldn't work" if there was racial diversity in the show and that the long-running drama was a "last bastion of Englishness" and should stay that way.
He's been suspended pending an internal investigation.Me, personally, I enjoy the show and I'm black - it is a show that has a certain village feel to it and it's enjoyable in it's current format.
It is very stereotypical and it's enjoyable just the way it is.
I wonder how it would be taken if there was a "token black guy" or if that black guy was the murderer (more stereo types) or the victim (again, stereotyping) or if he was a "gardener" (more stereotyping) - I think to change it would lead to a hiding to nothing...
Or am I the only one that cares?
Jasandjules said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Or am I the only one that cares?
Nope, I don't think it matters either.But clearly some people do for him to be under investigation. Perhaps they'll be off to actually look around a large selection of small villages around the country...
I've also been in a large number of smaller village pubs in Lincolnshire where I've been stared at for being different - and let's not talk about the time I drove to see a friend in Suffolk and, once I got "over the border", I was stopped 4 times in about 30 miles.It doesn't matter for a show like this, surely? What about Foyles War - only white people in that too from what I recall...
all a storm in a teacup- there are programs with black casts if you look hard enough- and that's fine, because the communities they are protraying are all black communiites- putting a white face in would be ridiculous.
We are at risk of trying to shape reality to fit a political correct picture!
having lived in 5-10 small "english" villages i don't remember seeing any "non-white" people there. They would have been as welcome as anyone else (although the cornish villages, it didn't matter what colour you were, if you weren't cornish you weren't welcome
), but just never chose to live there.
Briging it up just seems to causes attentiont to peoples differences.
Also slightly surprising that they've waited 14 seris to suspend him- if he's genuinely being racist then they've missed the boat!
We are at risk of trying to shape reality to fit a political correct picture!
having lived in 5-10 small "english" villages i don't remember seeing any "non-white" people there. They would have been as welcome as anyone else (although the cornish villages, it didn't matter what colour you were, if you weren't cornish you weren't welcome
), but just never chose to live there. Briging it up just seems to causes attentiont to peoples differences.
Also slightly surprising that they've waited 14 seris to suspend him- if he's genuinely being racist then they've missed the boat!
I spend quite a lot of time in the countryside of Suffolk and I have to admit that I rarely if ever see a person from an ethnic minority. The producer is quite right but perhaps didn't choose his words carefully. Most people from ethnic minorities prefer to live in cities and towns. One reason being there are people from similar cultural backgrounds already living there. I feel Midsommer probably reflects this fact with the characters portrayed.
It's amazing how a show can run for 17 years in the same format yet, as soon as someone (the co-producer) mentions something about race, it's all terrible and shouldn't be allowed. As for Brian True-May being suspended, that's just pathetic. This country has really gone to the s
tter if you can't say something so innocuous without someone taking offence on behalf of someone else.
tter if you can't say something so innocuous without someone taking offence on behalf of someone else.KrazyIvan said:
I am guessing they could just say that all the ethnic groups are too smart to move to a small english area of the country side that has a higher murder per capita rate then most south american cities
Too true, Midsomer has so many deaths I'm surprised there is any population there.
Strangely Brown said:
It's amazing how a show can run for 17 years in the same format yet, as soon as someone (the co-producer) mentions something about race, it's all terrible and shouldn't be allowed. As for Brian True-May being suspended, that's just pathetic. This country has really gone to the stter if you can't say something so innocuous without someone taking offence on behalf of someone else.
thing is his words could have been better chosen, or are they correctly answering the question put to him in the interview.tter if you can't say something so innocuous without someone taking offence on behalf of someone else.i haven't seen the question so perhaps his answer would make more sense and be less inflammatory.
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