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Posted Wednesday 8/28/19 at 10:46PM EDT
How "liberal Hollywood" helps perpetuate the myth of "real Americans"
"Hollywood does more to perpetuate the myth of 'real Americans' than any politician, or any other cultural force in the...
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Natalie Morales calls out NBC for canceling Abby's
"So much for diversity!" Morales tells The Last Laugh podcast, adding that NBC neglected to give the groundbreaking Cheers-like outdoor...
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Posted Wednesday 8/21/19 at 1:13PM EDT
New Friends book details untold casting stories, including how producers considered a diverse cast
Saul Austerlitz's new book Generation Friends, timed with the NBC sitcom's 25th anniversary on Sept.
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Posted Friday 8/09/19 at 12:30AM EDT
Orange Is the New Black was praised for its groundbreaking diversity, but it's also been criticized for exploiting its minority characters
There seemed to be a divide between white critics praising the groundbreaking Netflix series and critics of color finding it...
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Posted Wednesday 8/07/19 at 1:40PM EDT
FX touts its "real" and "permanent" changes to bolster diversity
FX Networks chairman John Landgraf pointed out that 44% of FX writers are now white men and 56% are women...
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Posted Thursday 8/01/19 at 7:47PM EDT
CMT is trying to broaden its viewership -- toward feminism and racial diversity and away from its historical white roots
Executives at Country Music Television are hopeful that the summer of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" is a sign...
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Posted Thursday 8/01/19 at 1:34PM EDT
CBS bosses grilled on racial issues on Big Brother and Survivor
CBS executives responded this morning to racial controversies on its two oldest reality shows.
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Posted Thursday 7/25/19 at 2:57PM EDT
AMC developing a Farmhand graphic novel TV adaptation
Farmhand, based on Rob Guillory's comic of the same name, is one of the first two projects in AMC's scripted...
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Posted Wednesday 7/10/19 at 11:35PM EDT
Netflix orders the first-ever scripted series on the black Italian experience
Zero is part of Netflix's efforts to tell underrepresented stories.
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Posted Saturday 6/29/19 at 2:28AM EDT
The Spanish Princess has subverted the narrative of people of color in Western period dramas
Showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham wanted to dispel the myth that minorities were absent in British history, so they...
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Posted Tuesday 6/18/19 at 1:56AM EDT
Big Little Lies' attempt to be more diverse in Season 2 feels "like checking the boxes"
"Finally acknowledge Bonnie’s ethnicity? Check," says Greg Braxton of Sunday's episode.
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Posted Thursday 6/06/19 at 12:58PM EDT
Neil Gaiman calls a Twitter troll's Good Omens "forced diversity" complaint "marvelous and heartwarming"
One Twitter user didn't like that the voice of God, played by Frances McDormand, is female and Adam and Eve...
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Posted Monday 5/13/19 at 9:34AM EDT
Daenerys Targaryen's Game of Thrones madness felt unearned
Yes, the HBO series has been planting the seeds for a Mad Queen heel turn for years, says Riley McAtee.
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Posted Friday 5/03/19 at 9:05PM EDT
CBS' longtime casting chief, who was accused of preferring white actors over minorites, is out following allegations of inapprpriate behavior
During his tenure, Peter Golden supervised the casting of more than 450 pilots, 160 series and more than 200 movies...
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Posted Wednesday 5/01/19 at 9:51AM EDT
Rachel Lindsay was "sad" over the lack of diversity at The Bachelorette's 15th-anniversary reunion
"It was sad for me to look around the room and (see that) no one else looked like me,” says...