I only ask because today she wrote:
…for 14 years the programme has used an all-white cast to portray an all-white English village.
Anyone who has actually watched the programme for more than just one episode will tell you that it is certainly not based on one village. The “Midsomer” refers to an area or county and the murders are portrayed in a whole selection of towns and villages in that area. Indeed, here is the full list of the towns and villages which have featured in the series over the years:
| Aspern Tallow |
| Badger’s Drift |
| Bow Clayton |
| Broughton |
| Burwood Mantle |
| Calham Cross |
| Causton / Causton Town |
| Devington |
| Draycott |
| Dunstan |
| Elverton-cum-Latterley |
| Ferne Basset |
| Finchmere |
| Fletcher’s Cross |
| Ford Florey |
| Goodman’s Land |
| Great Pelfe |
| Haddington |
| Little Upton |
| Little Worthy |
| Lower Warden |
| Luxton Deeping |
| Malham Bridge |
| Malham Cross |
| March Magna |
| Marsh Wood |
| Martyr Warren |
| Midsomer Barton |
| Midsomer Chettham |
| Midsomer Deverell |
| Midsomer Florey |
| Midsomer Holm |
| Midsomer Magna |
| Midsomer Malham |
| Midsomer Mallow |
| Midsomer Market |
| Midsomer Mere |
| Midsomer Morchard |
| Midsomer Morton |
| Midsomer Newton |
| Midsomer Parva |
| Midsomer Priors |
| Midsomer Sonning |
| Midsomer St. Michael |
| Midsomer Wellow |
| Midsomer Worthy |
| Milton Cross |
| Monks Barton |
| Morton Fendle |
| Morton Shallows |
| Newton Magna |
| Upper Warden |
And not a single Indian or Chinese take-away or other ethnic minority business in any of them….
Liberal Burblings 
Hah, I do love good old English village names (my favourite: Nempnett Thrubwell), and Midsomer is certainly full of them. Not a terrible show either.
That producer was certainly right rural areas are not very diverse compared to the country as a whole(near my area a tory candidate back in May sells products under the label ‘The Black Farmer’ for this very reason), but boy he put his foot in it with the rest of his words.
Looking at the list of villages that appear in the series I don’t think they’re in the least bit representative of actual placenames; far too many of them consist of two words, the vast majority in fact, and the use of apostrophes is over represented.
Indeed 😉