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Posted Tuesday 3/03/20 at 8:27PM EST
BET's Boomerang returns March 11 with a Season 2 directed entirely by women of color
“This season, we really wanted to go bigger and bolder,” said co-showrunner Dime Davis.
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Posted Tuesday 3/03/20 at 1:13PM EST
Rachel Lindsay warns The Bachelor franchise can't survive with a lack of diversity and dependence on Instagram influencers
In an Associated Press interview taped six months ago and published after last night's The Women Tell All special, the...
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Posted Wednesday 2/26/20 at 6:00AM EST
The Bachelor is expanding to include seniors as it mostly ignores minorities and LGBTQ community
The ABC reality franchise expanding to senior citizens comes after years of complaints over the lack of diversity in The...
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Posted Tuesday 2/11/20 at 12:29AM EST
Oscars' attempt to address diversity complaints during the ceremony came off as superficial
Janelle Monáe called out the Oscars being so white in her opening performance.
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Bring back the host!: 92nd Academy Awards showed the pitfalls of a host-less ceremony
The chief job of a host is to bring continuity to the ceremony, which was something this year's Oscars lacked.
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Posted Thursday 1/30/20 at 1:39PM EST
David Schwimmer: "I didn't mean to imply Living Single hadn't existed or indeed hand't come before Friends, which I knew it had"
Schwimmer responded to getting roasted on social media for telling The Guardian earlier this week that "maybe there should be...
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Posted Wednesday 1/29/20 at 3:12AM EST
David Schwimmer roasted for calling for an "all-black" version of Friends when it's been accused of ripping off Living Single
Schwimmer's recent remarks to The Guardian saying there should be an all-Asian or all-black Friends led many on Twitter to...
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Posted Monday 1/27/20 at 10:18AM EST
David Schwimmer: "Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends"
In an interview with The Guardian, Schwimmer was asked about Friends not holding up to today's "woke" times.
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Posted Saturday 1/25/20 at 2:27AM EST
How crime shows like Law & Order: SVU normalize bad police behavior
The nonprofit Color of Change's 152-page report released earlier this week showed how people of color are overrepresented in commiting...
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Posted Wednesday 1/22/20 at 2:34AM EST
Study: Netflix, NBC and ABC lead in showing people of color committing wrongful actions in crime dramas
A new report from the nonprofit Color of Change found that during the 2017-2018 season, people of color were more...
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Posted Sunday 1/19/20 at 3:25PM EST
Bob's Burgers creator explains casting males as females and Kristen Bell as a biracial character in Apple TV+'s Central Park
Like he does on Bob's Burgers, Loren Bouchard has males voicing female roles on his forthcoming Apple TV+ animated series...
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Posted Wednesday 1/15/20 at 2:21PM EST
Cynthia Erivo, star of Stephen King's The Outsider, address the author's controversial tweet about diversity
The author took some heat earlier for tweeting Tuesday, in reaction to the nearly all-white Oscar nominations, "I would never...
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Posted Monday 1/13/20 at 9:04PM EST
Eddie Murphy calling out Oscars' lack of diversity during the 1998 ceremony resurfaces
Murphy's 1998 Oscars presentation received new attention today amid lack of diversity concerns over this year's nominees.
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Posted Monday 12/23/19 at 10:41PM EST
Hallmark Channel's diversity problem: "It’s the TV demographic equivalent of trying to become the No. 1 coal mine of the 21st century"
Reflecting on Hallmark's lesbian Zola ad controversy earlier this month, Jeb Lund notes that "Hallmark is a family network anchored...
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Posted Thursday 12/19/19 at 2:41PM EST
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs landmark TV diversity bill
At the urging of a group of TV writers, Cuomo today signed New York's Television Diversity Tax Credit Bill, which...
