Showing 1 - 15 of 94 articles tagged "Diversity"

• Posted Thursday 10/10/19 at 1:31PM EDT

  Jeff Probst explains why Survivor has its most ethnically diverse cast in years

  "The truth is, by design, we always want the cast to be as diverse as possible," says Probst.

• Posted Wednesday 10/02/19 at 1:31PM EDT

  Rachel Lindsay: I doubt there will ever be another black Bachelorette

  “I’m not hopeful at all,” the former Bachelorette tells Us Weekly.

• Posted Thursday 9/26/19 at 4:59PM EDT

  Law & Order: SVU boss on record-breaking Season 21: "You don't want it to be just a regular season, you want it to be special"

  "I feel like this is cool…We are aware of this has never been done before," says showrunner Warren Leight, adding:...

• Posted Wednesday 9/18/19 at 7:37PM EDT

  ABC reality boss expected diversity backlash over Peter Weber as The Bachelor, but insists "he was the strongest option"

  ABC is facing criticism again for selecting a white Bachelor, especially when it had the strong contender in Mike Johnson,...

• Posted Wednesday 9/18/19 at 7:37PM EDT

  Mike Johnson: "A black Bachelor should have been cast"

  The Bachelorette alum says he always had a feeling Peter Weber would become the next Bachelor.

• 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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  Posted Friday 8/23/19 at 1:28PM EDT

  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...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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.

• 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...