The 2018-19 broadcast television season made strides with on-screen diversity, but there is still considerable progress to be made off-screen.
During the “Inside a Writers Room: Power Dynamics” at the Atx Television Festival Saturday, moderator/executive producer Glen Mazzara acknowledged the panel — which consisted of Liz Tigelaar, Christopher C. Rogers (“Halt & Catch Fire”), Shawn Ryan, Rina Mimoun, and Patrick Sean Smith (“Greek”) — was white, plus had more men than women. He asked the group what they could do to be more inclusive with their writers’ rooms going forward.
Rogers, whose first room experience was on “Halt and Catch Fire,” the show’s natural evolution during season 1 into an ensemble led to the writers being more cognizant that there needed to be better representation in the room.
“We decided going forward, we needed to be at least fifty percent in the writers’ room and behind the camera,” he said. “That is...
During the “Inside a Writers Room: Power Dynamics” at the Atx Television Festival Saturday, moderator/executive producer Glen Mazzara acknowledged the panel — which consisted of Liz Tigelaar, Christopher C. Rogers (“Halt & Catch Fire”), Shawn Ryan, Rina Mimoun, and Patrick Sean Smith (“Greek”) — was white, plus had more men than women. He asked the group what they could do to be more inclusive with their writers’ rooms going forward.
Rogers, whose first room experience was on “Halt and Catch Fire,” the show’s natural evolution during season 1 into an ensemble led to the writers being more cognizant that there needed to be better representation in the room.
“We decided going forward, we needed to be at least fifty percent in the writers’ room and behind the camera,” he said. “That is...
- 6/10/2018
- by Marisa Roffman
- Variety Film + TV
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