'Too middle-class': Bristolians accuse BBC of 'airbrushing' city on hit show Frankie saying it lacks local accents Local viewers say the show lacks local accents and is 'too middle-class' Bristol residents have accused the BBC of "airbrushing" a hit tv-show set in their town, only showing some parts of the city and excluding Bristolian accents. Frankie, the Beeb's new drama about district nurse Frankie Maddox's trials and tribulations on the north side of the town, has received some harsh critique from local viewers. Bristol locals say the show is "too middle-class" and focuses too much on the upmarket area of Clifton, where Frankie works. 'Airbrushed': BBC's Frankie has been accused of being 'to middle-class' for a show set in Bristol and lacking local accents The six-part-drama, which attracted 3.92million viewers last week, stars Eve Myles as feisty Welsh nurse Frankie who works as a district nurse in a Bristol which, according to critics, seem to completely lack Bristol accents. "The characters seem to go to middle class areas and squeaky clean areas and there was no Bristolian accent in there either," Robin Whitlock, a 46-year-old writer, told the Telegraph. The programme seems to skirt around the large working-class population of the city. It wasn't representative of what the city was like," he added. Too upmarket: Locals say the show, which attracts 3.9million viewers is 'skirting around' Bristol's working-class population and gives a one-sided view of the city Amy Goldsmith, 32, has lived in Bristol for over a decade. "The area she [Frankie] is based in does not have the South-West lilt you might expect," she told the paper. She said the kind of people that would be watching the show is working middle-class people and that Frankie suits them, and added that it represented her Bristol, "but not everyone's." That different cultural bit of Bristol might not attract such a wide audience. The six-part drama is shown at 9pm on BBC1 and ends next Tuesday.