SyFy (sorry, SyFy! But seriously, you keep asking for it) did this with Being Human; I'm afraid I don't know about the cast from the original UK production
UK Being Human features an Englishman (George, the werewolf) an Irishman (Mitchell, the vampire) and a mixed-race woman (Annie, the ghost). Which sounds like the beginning of a bad joke...
On the other hand, I can't help thinking that race in the UK is a *slightly* different issue to in the US. White European is "native" and there are tensions between Celtic Britain and Anglo-Saxon Britain (cf Northern Ireland and movements for Scottish and Welsh independence etc), not to mention between Eastern/Western and Northern/Southern European (in Italy, for example, Northern Italians manage to be "racist" about people from the South/Sardinia/Sicily etc(who tend to be somewhat darker complexioned), and many people in the UK are very prejudiced about "bloody Poles and Estonians coming over 'ere and taking all our jobs") as well between White and other races... To be *really* representative you'd need a rather large cast.
That said, given that half my class at school were either Jewish or Asian (my part of London didn't have many Black African or Black Carribean residents; in other parts of London White European is the minority) I don't see nearly enough Jewish or Asian characters in British tv.
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UK Being Human features an Englishman (George, the werewolf) an Irishman (Mitchell, the vampire) and a mixed-race woman (Annie, the ghost). Which sounds like the beginning of a bad joke...
On the other hand, I can't help thinking that race in the UK is a *slightly* different issue to in the US. White European is "native" and there are tensions between Celtic Britain and Anglo-Saxon Britain (cf Northern Ireland and movements for Scottish and Welsh independence etc), not to mention between Eastern/Western and Northern/Southern European (in Italy, for example, Northern Italians manage to be "racist" about people from the South/Sardinia/Sicily etc(who tend to be somewhat darker complexioned), and many people in the UK are very prejudiced about "bloody Poles and Estonians coming over 'ere and taking all our jobs") as well between White and other races... To be *really* representative you'd need a rather large cast.
That said, given that half my class at school were either Jewish or Asian (my part of London didn't have many Black African or Black Carribean residents; in other parts of London White European is the minority) I don't see nearly enough Jewish or Asian characters in British tv.
This is quite depressing...