DESPITE a global reckoning over racism and the ongoing Black lives matter protest followed by George Floyd’s death, British television diversity remains low.
A Dimond report published by The Creative Diversity Network (CDN) reveals that the Black, Asian and minority ethnic people representations in the British television industry have decreased both on- and off-screen.
The report is based on 36,503 responses of industry figures collected between August 2019 and July 2020.
Between 2019-2020, BAME off-screen participation fell from 12.3% to 11.8%, below the national workforce estimate (13%).
Paul Moore, CDN Chair, wrote in the report: “Over the last year the Black Lives Matter movement has given a greater focus and urgency to diversity in UK television. COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on productions and an as yet unknown impact on mental and physical health as well as the diversity of those who work in the industry.”
Senior Political Producer for Good Morning Britain, Anne Alexandra said: ” I know that the industry particularly in the past year has made a lot of effort or at least talked about a lot about what can be done to improve diversity. I suspect you are going to start to see more changes on air, but also we do need to see changes in the background as well”.
There has been a small rise in the number of participations made by disabled people and over-50s, both on and off-screen, these groups are still significantly under-represented across all Diamond programmes.
Diamond collects diversity data on UK original productions licensed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and many more.
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