Hello and welcome back to our roundup of the most important news from stage and screen. Ofcom report damns diversity figures.Ofcom, the media regulator, has put numbers to the claims that major broadcast institutions are not doing enough to promote diversity in the industry. The damning evidence, reported by chief executive Sharon White, echoed the words of veteran broadcaster Jon Snow when he gave a speech in August about the media being too removed from general public and everyday lives. Ofcom’s report found that across the top five broadcasters, women accounted for 48 percent of the total workforce but only held 39 percent of senior roles. Those from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background made up 12 percent of employees and disabled people just 3 percent (despite 18 percent of the general population identifying as disabled). Age played as important a factor, with records showing that there are 50 percent more men than...
- 9/19/2017
- backstage.com
The comedian takes aim at Ofcom and Cdn’s Diamond.
Lenny Henry has slammed diversity monitoring scheme Diamond and Ofcom for not going far enough in their attempts to increase Bame representation (writes Broadcast).
Speaking at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Sunday (11 June), the actor-comedian took a swipe at the TV industry’s lack of progress around diversity.
He said that as part of Creative Diversity Network’s Diamond scheme, broadcasters should be forced to publish data on a programme-by-programme basis rather than an anonymised snapshot.
Henry’s comments echoed the criticism levelled at the scheme, which is due to publish its first year results in August, by Bectu and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (Wggb).
“It is like they are deliberately not implementing it because people don’t want to do it. It’s such a simple thing to do,” said Henry. “We’ll never know [the diversity of the crew] making these shows.”
Henry, who was...
Lenny Henry has slammed diversity monitoring scheme Diamond and Ofcom for not going far enough in their attempts to increase Bame representation (writes Broadcast).
Speaking at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Sunday (11 June), the actor-comedian took a swipe at the TV industry’s lack of progress around diversity.
He said that as part of Creative Diversity Network’s Diamond scheme, broadcasters should be forced to publish data on a programme-by-programme basis rather than an anonymised snapshot.
Henry’s comments echoed the criticism levelled at the scheme, which is due to publish its first year results in August, by Bectu and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (Wggb).
“It is like they are deliberately not implementing it because people don’t want to do it. It’s such a simple thing to do,” said Henry. “We’ll never know [the diversity of the crew] making these shows.”
Henry, who was...
- 6/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
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