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Back in 2011, Producer Brian True-May was suspended by ITV after admitting he deliberately keeps ethnic minority characters out of the show because It wouldn't be the English village with them. It just wouldn't work.
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Well last night's first of a new series of Midsomer Murders, did in fact include a black actor, did anyone who saw it, think that this actor added anything to the show, except in an effort to meet a certain criteria?
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Well last night's first of a new series of Midsomer Murders, did in fact include a black actor, did anyone who saw it, think that this actor added anything to the show, except in an effort to meet a certain criteria?
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/// Damn, I didn't know it was on. Mind you, it's not the same without John Nettles and Jason Hughes. ///
I agree, John Nettles's Barnaby was not so domesticated as the new Barnaby is.
The old Barnaby was allowed to criticise his wife's cooking, and shy away from any event that his wife and daughter were so keen to drag him along to.
Whereas the new Barnaby is the typical 'Modern day man', for starters there is a new baby, and he takes his turn in all those domestic chores that babies create.
/// In this latest series, DCI John Barnaby is adjusting to being a father - and that's brought with it some fresh challenges for actor Neil Dudgeon as well.
He explains: "Barnaby becoming a doting dad is a strong storyline in the new series so we now have domestic scenes with his wife, dog and baby, which actually means two babies, as we work with twins.
"You know exactly what you're supposed to be doing in the scene and then on comes one baby, who starts crying, so we get the other one, and then discover that Sykes the dog has wandered off." ///
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The question that must be asked is "this is a detective series, why the need for all this domesticity"?
/// Damn, I didn't know it was on. Mind you, it's not the same without John Nettles and Jason Hughes. ///
I agree, John Nettles's Barnaby was not so domesticated as the new Barnaby is.
The old Barnaby was allowed to criticise his wife's cooking, and shy away from any event that his wife and daughter were so keen to drag him along to.
Whereas the new Barnaby is the typical 'Modern day man', for starters there is a new baby, and he takes his turn in all those domestic chores that babies create.
/// In this latest series, DCI John Barnaby is adjusting to being a father - and that's brought with it some fresh challenges for actor Neil Dudgeon as well.
He explains: "Barnaby becoming a doting dad is a strong storyline in the new series so we now have domestic scenes with his wife, dog and baby, which actually means two babies, as we work with twins.
"You know exactly what you're supposed to be doing in the scene and then on comes one baby, who starts crying, so we get the other one, and then discover that Sykes the dog has wandered off." ///
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The question that must be asked is "this is a detective series, why the need for all this domesticity"?
I didn't like the black man to be honest. Nothing personal or racist, it just made no sense.
Mind you, as an ex postie, they annoyed me by having postmen on bikes (one of whom was Asian as I recall) delivering large parcels instead of having a driver take them. Plus had they really gone in the post packed like they were, the wheels would have come loose in the box.
Mind you, as an ex postie, they annoyed me by having postmen on bikes (one of whom was Asian as I recall) delivering large parcels instead of having a driver take them. Plus had they really gone in the post packed like they were, the wheels would have come loose in the box.
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