Here via the meta...

I think a big problem is that people are more likely to be cross about something that clearly tries and fails than about something that simply fails. For instance, take Sherlock - so, it's totally about two white men; but if you go to watch it then you KNOW that, you are expecting to see this, and you judge it on it's merits as something sold as "a show about two white men". Is it interesting? Are the stars hot? Does anyone do anything so gratuitously racist/sexist/other-ist that it sticks out like a sore thumb amidst the general atmosphere of such oppression that is in every other show?

Whereas a show that claims "feminist" or "anti-racist" credentials, that SETS OUT to tell stories too often ignored... well then we don't just want it to exist, we want it to be MAGNIFICENT, to be the very pinnacle of excellence in social justice. And of course it will fail, it is almost impossible to achieve such perfection (especially since "what perfection is" is a far from settled matter!). Because these stories are so rare we rip them apart trying to say what would be perfection, perhaps in the naive hope that the next one made will be PERFECT.

Me, these days mostly I hope that there will simply be MORE shows that stray from the "bunch of white men" pattern. Because the more there is the more likely some of it will be what I actually want to watch. And in the meantime I have no time in my life to watch much TV and am sadly addicted to trashy US cop dramas so I'm probably part of the problem.