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One of the creators of ITV1’s Midsomer Murders has claimed it “wouldn’t work” if there was racial diversity in the village life it portrays.<\/p>\n

Producer Brian True-May told the Radio Times the long-running drama was a “last bastion of Englishness” and should stay that way.<\/p>\n

He said he had not previously been tackled about the issue.<\/p>\n

A study in 2006 found the programme to be “strikingly unpopular” with viewers from ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n

Mr True-May told the magazine: “We are a cosmopolitan society in this country, but if you watch Midsomer you wouldn’t think so.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never been picked up on that, but quite honestly I wouldn’t want to change it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Of his all-white portrayal of rural life in Britain’s murder capital he said: “Maybe I’m not politically correct”.<\/p>\n

The programme – which has run for 14 series – appealed to a “certain audience”, he said.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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If it’s incest, blackmail, lesbianism, homosexuality… terrific, put it in\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

“I’m trying to make something that appeals to a certain audience, which seems to succeed. And I don’t want to change it.”<\/p>\n

Midsomer Murders, based on the books by Caroline Graham, was launched in 1997 and has featured 251 deaths, 222 of which were murders.<\/p>\n

The producer has banned swearing, violence and sex scenes from the show but has tackled diversity issues other than ethnicity.<\/p>\n

“If it’s incest, blackmail, lesbianism, homosexuality… terrific, put it in, because people can believe that people can murder for any of those reasons,” he told Radio Times.<\/p>\n

Actor Jason Hughes, who has played the programme’s DS Jones, said he had pondered why Midsomer continued to have no ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n

“I’ve wondered that myself and I don’t know,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This isn’t an urban drama and it isn’t about multiculturalism. That’s not to say that there isn’t a place for multiculturalism in the show. But that’s really not up to me to decide. <\/p>\n

“I don’t think that we would all suddenly go, ‘a black gardener in Midsomer? You can’t have that’. I think we’d all go, ‘great, fantastic’.”<\/p>\n

Actor John Nettles’s final appearance on the drama was watched by an average of 7.1 million viewers last month.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old bowed out of the series after 14 years playing DCI Tom Barnaby. He will be replaced by Neil Dudgeon, who will play his character’s cousin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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