Midsomer Murders producer suspended over race remarks
Brian True-May, co-creator of ITV’s genteel crime drama Misomer Murders, has been suspended after citing the show as a “last bastion of Englishness” in which there was “no place” for ethnic minorities.
The remarks, made in an interview with the Radio Times, prompted the programmes production company, All3Media, to disown the “shocking” comments.
Actor Jason Hughes, who plays DS Jones in the all white murder mystery said: “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'."
ITV are conducting an investigation into the affair, suspending May pending its conclusion.