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DGA Report On Director Diversity In Hiring Practices For Episodic TV
LOS ANGELES – The Directors Guild of America this week issued a report analyzing the ethnicity and gender of directors hired to direct primetime episodic television for the 2010-2011 television season. Unfortunately, the statistic reported for Burn Notice incorrectly indicated that Burn Notice did not hire any women or minority directors during the 2010-2011 television season. We have been notified that Burn Notice did in fact hire women or minority directors to direct 2 of its 18 episodes during the 2011 season, which would have changed its percentage from 0% to 11% of all directors for the show’s 2011 season.
The error was based on incomplete information for the 2011 season which was confirmed as accurate by the studio when sent the DGA figures for verification. The DGA has since received information from the studio about additional episodes shot in the 2011 season, which include the 2 episodes shot by women or minority directors.
The DGA regrets the error and apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused, and has corrected the information online and for any future use.
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Wow, 2 of 18! That’s 1 in 9, which is one better than 0 in 9!
Wow, identity politics and quotas.
Really pathetic.
You don’t get it. Identity politics and political correctness is all that matters in Hollywood.
Get over your self. The conservative line about “quotas” and “identity politics” is nothing more than a way to dismiss real discrimination. You seem to have no problem with the fact that the studios hired nearly no women or people of color to direct. If the situation were flipped, you would be shouting about how terrible it is that white males can’t get hired.
The fact is that 51% of Americans are women. Close to 40% of Americans are people of color. The studios have a long history of discrimination.
Frankly, it’s time that some sues the hell out of the media companies.
“f the situation were flipped, you would be shouting about how terrible it is that white males can’t get hired.” – The fact is, the situation is slowly flipping right now, right before our very eyes.
Everyone has a color.
I’m so glad to learn that some of the most stilted, inartfully directed episodes of Burn Notice I witnessed this seasonn were not a result of government mandated diversity. Politicians always produce the best art.