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The Robots Are Coming For Your Closed Captions — And That’s No Baloney, Patsy
During a recent episode of the January 6 Commission hearings — this summer's most-talked-about new show — comedy goddess...
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Posted Thursday 4/14/22 at 2:12PM EDT
Hawkeye, And Just Like That, Only Murders in the Building and Ordinary Joe earn recognition for their disability representation
The four shows were the recipients of the Ruderman Foundation's Seal of Authentic Representation.
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Posted Wednesday 4/13/22 at 10:00PM EDT
Hallmark announces its first romance movie centered on a lead character with Down Syndrome
Never Have I Ever actress Lily D.
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Posted Tuesday 4/12/22 at 2:34AM EDT
Why does The Simpsons' first episode featuring a deaf voice actor feel like pandering?
With CODA's Best Picture Oscar victory and John Autry II's role as The Simpsons' first deaf performer, it seems like...
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Posted Thursday 4/07/22 at 1:19PM EDT
The Simpsons will feature its first-ever use of American Sign Language and deaf voice actors
Sunday's “The Sound of Bleeding Gums" episode "centers on Lisa Simpson, who discovers that her favorite musician and mentor, the...
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Posted Monday 3/28/22 at 9:48AM EDT
Meet Sesame Street's newest Muppet: A disabled refugee named Ameera
Ameera is making her debut on Ahlan Simsim, the Sesame Street version that airs Middle East and North Africa.
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Posted Wednesday 3/16/22 at 3:55PM EDT
Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen to lead BBC's Jack Thorne disability drama Best Interests
The four-part Best Interests "explores the rights of children and the inequalities facing the U.
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Posted Tuesday 3/15/22 at 3:31AM EDT
Marlee Matlin to make her directorial debut with Fox's Accused
The Oscar-winning actress, who is deaf, will direct an epsiode of the anthology drama featuring a deaf woman who becomes...
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Posted Monday 2/07/22 at 9:37PM EST
Britain's Channel 4 will cover the Winter Paralympics with a team made up entirely of people with disabilities
"This is testament to the brilliant disabled presenting talent we have in the UK and underlines our commitment to providing...
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Posted Monday 2/07/22 at 1:10PM EST
Dr. Dre invites two deaf rappers in a first for Super Bowl halftime
Dr.
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Posted Thursday 12/09/21 at 2:31PM EST
Netflix casts newcomer Aria Mia Loberti, who is blind, to lead All the Light We Cannot See
Loberti will play Marie-Laure, a blind teenager in occupied France during World War II who meets up with a German...
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Posted Monday 11/15/21 at 6:47PM EST
NBC taps Alan Toy to play fellow polio survivor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Annie Live!
“FDR has always been a role model of accomplishment for me,” says Toy of playing the late president, who was...
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Posted Saturday 10/09/21 at 3:32AM EDT
Sex Education has become more inclusive in showing queer relationships, gender presentation and intimacy with a disability
Creator Laurie Nunn says that presenting such interactions -- such as chest-binding among nonbinary characters -- matter-of-factly with plenty of...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds unveils original Trek characters, including its new Uhura
Tony-nominated Broadway star Celia Rose Gooding will take on the role of Cadet Nyota Uhura, first played by Nichelle Nichols...
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Posted Thursday 8/26/21 at 1:24AM EDT
Netflix and BBC partner on developing shows to promote disabled creatives
The two companies will “consider projects from UK producers that have been created or co-created by writers who identify as...