CBS' longtime casting chief, who was accused of preferring white actors over minorites, is out following allegations of inapprpriate behavior

Variety

During his tenure, Peter Golden supervised the casting of more than 450 pilots, 160 series and more than 200 movies and miniseries. Golden, who has been a CBS casting executive since 1996 and who has served as head of casting since 2004, was accused in a recent "CBS Has a White Problem" article by former CBS executive Whitney Davis of saying that minority actors weren't good enough compared to white actors. Variety also reports Golden was the subject of an HR complaint accusing him of saying casting had become too thorny a process and that he wished it would be as simple as when CBS cast How I Met Your Mother, and the network didn't have to worry about "other issues." Another complaint accused him of saying an actor was "too gay" to appear on CBS. Variety reports Golden has also been accused of verbally abusing staffers. Golden's name surfaced last November in the Les Moonves scandal, when he was reported to have made a casting offer to an actress, Bobbie Phillips, at Moonves' request in the 1990s. Variety notes that none of the complaints against Golden were related to sexual misconduct.