All-right profits from all-white Midsomer

The row over the absence of ethnic-minority actors on Midsomer Murders (ITV) is faithfully recorded this week by UK4Net, writes Peter Rhodes.

UK4NET is the rather odd world-news website where computers do the translating into ze Eenglish as she is spoke. Its account reads:

" Producer Brian True-May told a Radio Times : 'We are a worldly multitude in this country, though if we watch Midsomer we wouldn't consider so. We only don't have racial minorities involved. Because it wouldn't be a English encampment with them'. "

Clear enough?

Meanwhile, an ITV spokesman declares, in suitably shocked and horrified tones, that the comments by Brian True-May on the importance of keeping Midsomer "the last bastion of Englishness" are "absolutely not shared by anyone at ITV."

The profits, however, are.

Isn't it strange that ITV, an organisation which now claims to have such high principles, was quite happy to make money from a series with not a single black or Asian face, until True-May pointed out the bleedin' obvious?