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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 3:58AM EDT
Survivor alums launch a petition calling on the CBS reality show to add more diversity
Survivor: Cagayan's J'Tia Taylor created the petition calling for Survivor to select more Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) for...
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Big Mouth and Central Park reveal the flaws of color-blind casting
Netflix's Big Mouth and Apple TV+'s Central Park respectively cast Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell as biracial kids who are...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Did Matt James become the first Black Bachelor because of white "gatekeepers" Hannah Brown and Tyler Cameron?
James faces an "impossible role" as the first Black Bachelor, says Andrea Reindl.
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Kerry Washington: Hollywood's diversity crisis centers on whiteness
“When we say we’re committed to diversity, it’s diverse from what?” Washington said on the podcast Hollywood, The Sequel.
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Black TV writers are getting hired, but they're not getting promoted
Black writers are getting more opportunities writing for television, but so few of them have supervising producer roles.
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 6:10PM EDT
Television Critics Association has overwhelmingly picked white winners for its awards over the last 35 years
Over the last 35 years, the TCA Awards has given 94% of its individual achievement in comedy and drama awards...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 6:10PM EDT
Jon Stewart says The Daily Show is "better" under Trevor Noah, especially with its inclusion of diverse voices
"It's not meant as a denigration of me," Stewart told Howard Stern of his praise for his successor.
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg reiterates his regret over hiring a white actress to play a Vietnamese character
Bob-Waksberg revisited his evolution on the Diane Nguyen character, played by Alison Brie, in a late-night Twitter thread on Tuesday...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
The Challenge has a long, troubling history of tolerating racist behavior
Contestant Dee Nguyen's firing early this month over her anti-Black Lives Matter tweets "prompted a lot more than just an...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT
Jon Stewart recalls being defensive when criticized for The Daily Show's lack of diversity
In an interview with The Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Stewart owned up to his Daily Show's lack of diversity and...
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BBC commits $124 million on diverse shows in response to the death of George Floyd
In response to a letter signed more than 3,500 people including Michaela Coel, Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth,...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 4:18AM EDT
Riverdale has always been "trash" when it comes to diverse representation
Vanessa Morgan's recent diversity complaints about The CW drama shouldn't come as a surprise.
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 4:18AM EDT
Chip and Joanna Gaines learn the pitfalls of saying they are "colorblind" when it comes to race
The Fixer Upper and Magnolia Channel stars and their five kids appeared this week on former NFL star Emmanuel Acho's...
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NBC plans a normal fall schedule, pairing Law & Order: SVU with Elliot Stabler spinoff
NBC is joining CBS in planning to have a "business as usual" fall schedule amid the coronavirus pandemic, though the...
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Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 3:19PM EDT
Former Bachelor producer claims the franchise avoided diversity: Women with afros or braids wouldn't be cast
In an open letter to ABC, ex-producer Jazzy Collins, who joined The Bachelor franchise with Rachel Lindsay's Bachelorette season, says...