The long-running UK mystery-crime series Midsomer Murders (shown on U.S. TV for several years and still available on DVD) was immensely popular and widely admired by fans and critics alike. The show’s producer got in a good deal of trouble recently, however, for saying that MM’s avoidance of race- and sexual-behavior-based characters and story lines was part of its appeal. As MM producer Brian True-May noted, the show’s refusal to shoehorn such elements into its stories made sense because
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