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The Directors Guild of America has found that when it comes to who sits in the director’s chair on TV series, they’re still white and male — and that trend is growing. According to a DGA report released today, white males directed 73% of primetime episodic TV on the main networks, cable and premium cable. That’s up 1% from a similar study the DGA did last year. The guild looked at more than 3,100 episodes of TV from the 2011-2012 network season and 190 scripted series from the 2011 cable season. TV directed by minority males decline from 14% last year to 13%. TV directed by white women stayed the same at 11%, while the percentage directed by minority women increased from 3% to 4%.
HBO’s Veep and TNT’s Dallas reboot were among the eight shows found by the DGA report that didn’t hire any women or minority directors. “In this day and age, it’s quite disappointing that so many shows failed to hire even a single woman or minority director during the course of an entire season — even shows whose cast and crew otherwise is notably diverse”, said DGA First VP and Sons Of Anarchy producer Paris Barclay. ABC’s Revenge (14%), HBO’s The Newsroom (11%), ABC’s Modern Family (8%) and CBS’ CSI (5%) were among the shows that hired a non-white male director for less than 15% of their episodes. CSI: NY (33%), FX’s Sons Of Anarchy (36%), HBO’s Girls (44%) and Disney XD’s Lab Rats (80%) were among those who hired minority or female directors for a significant number of episodes. VH1’s Single Ladies and BET shows The Game, Let’s Stay Together and Read Between The Lines were given a 100% rating for hiring minority or female directors.
Below is the DGA’s full “Worst Of” and “Best Of” lists noted in the study:
Following are the shows with the worst records of hiring women and minority directors for the 2011-2012 television season:
SHOWS THAT HIRED NO WOMEN AND NO MINORITY DIRECTORS:
Title (Production Company/Network) – Percentage of Episodes by Women or Minority Directors:· Chemistry (Chemistry Series/Cinemax) – 0%
· Dallas (Horizon Scripted Television/TNT) – 0%
· The Inbetweeners (On Site Productions/MTV) – 0%
· Leverage (Leverage Productions/TNT) – 0%
· Retired at 35 (King Street Productions/TV Land) – 0%
· Supernatural (NS Pictures/CW) – 0%
· Veep (Home Box Office/HBO) – 0%
· Workaholics (50/50 Productions/Comedy Central) – 0%SHOWS THAT HIRED WOMEN OR MINORITY DIRECTORS FOR FEWER THAN 15% OF EPISODES:
Title (Production Company/Network) – Percentage:· CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS Broadcasting/CBS) – 5%
· Hart of Dixie (Bonanza Productions/CW) – 5%
· Nikita (NS Pictures/CW) – 5%
· Once Upon A Time (Digital 49 Productions/ABC) – 5%
· Boardwalk Empire (Home Box Office/HBO) – 8%
· Justified (Woodridge Productions/FX) – 8%
· Modern Family (Twentieth Century Fox Television/ABC) – 8%
· The Office (Universal Network Television/NBC) – 8%
· Supah Ninjas (Uptown Productions/Nickelodeon) – 8%
· True Blood (Home Box Office/HBO) – 8%
· Community (Remote Broadcasting/NBC) – 9%
· Two Broke Girls (Bonanza Productions/CBS) – 9%
· Fringe (Warner Bros. Television/FOX) – 10%
· Hell on Wheels (Entertainment One Television USA/AMC) – 11%
· The Newsroom (Home Box Office/HBO) – 11%
· Perception (FTP Productions/TNT) – 11%
· The Wedding Band (Terrapin Productions/TBS) – 11%
· Castle (ABC Studios/ABC) – 13%
· Cougar Town (FTP Productions/ABC) – 13%
· Gossip Girl (Warner Bros. Television/CW) – 13%
· New Girl (Twentieth Century Fox Television/FOX) – 13%
· Rizzoli & Isles (Horizon Scripted Television/TNT) – 13%
· Shake it Up (It’s a Laugh Productions/Disney Channel) – 13%
· Parks & Recreation (Open 4 Business Productions/NBC) – 14%
· Revenge (ABC Studios/ABC) – 14%
· The Vampire Diaries (Bonanza Productions/CW) – 14%DGA’s “BEST OF” List
At the same time, the following shows are highlighted for hiring above the industry average in the 2011-2012 production cycle:SHOWS THAT HIRED WOMEN OR MINORITY DIRECTORS FOR AT LEAST 30% OF EPISODES:
Title (Production Company/Network) – Percentage:· The Game (Breakdown Productions/BET) – 100%
· Let’s Stay Together (Breakdown Productions/BET) – 100%
· Reed Between the Lines (Breakdown Productions/BET) – 100%
· Single Ladies (Bling Productions/VH1) – 100%
· Lab Rats (It’s a Laugh Productions/Disney XD) – 80%
· Scandal (FTP Productions/ABC) – 67%
· Suits (Open 4 Business Productions/USA) – 64%
· Pair of Kings (It’s a Laugh Productions/Disney XD) – 62%
· Nurse Jackie (Nurse Productions/Showtime) – 60%
· Treme (Home Box Office/HBO) – 60%
· Jessie (It’s a Laugh Productions/Disney Channel) – 58%
· Drop Dead Diva (Woodridge Productions/Lifetime) – 54%
· The Walking Dead (Stalwart Films/AMC) – 53%
· Awkward (On Site Productions/MTV) – 50%
· Grimm (Open 4 Business Productions/NBC) – 48%
· The Middle (Warner Bros. Television/ABC) – 46%
· Girls (Home Box Office/HBO) – 44%
· 90210 (CBS Broadcasting/CW) – 42%
· Covert Affairs (Open 4 Business Productions/USA) – 43%
· Dexter (Showtime Pictures Development Company/Showtime) – 42%
· Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (Twentieth Century Fox Television/ABC) – 42%
· The Big C (Remote Broadcasting/Showtime) – 40%
· Level Up (Alive and Kicking/Cartoon Network) – 40%
· Suburgatory (Bonanza Productions/ABC) – 38%
· Warehouse 13 – Universal Network Television/SyFy) – 38%
· Boss (Boss Kane Productions/Starz!) – 38%
· 30 Rock (NBC Studios/NBC) – 36%
· The Good Wife (CBS Broadcasting/CBS) – 36%
· Raising Hope (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/FOX) – 36%
· Smash (NBC Studios/NBC) – 36%
· Sons of Anarchy (Pacific 2.1 Entertainment Group/FX) – 36%
· Austin & Ally (It’s a Laugh Productions/Disney Channel) – 33%
· CSI: NY (CBS Broadcasting/CBS) – 33%
· Grey’s Anatomy (ABC Studios/ABC) – 33%
· Fairly Legal (Open 4 Business Productions/USA) – 33%
· Body of Proof (FTP Productions/ABC) – 31%
· Psych (Universal Network Television/USA) – 31%
· Alphas (Open 4 Business Productions/SyFy) – 30%
· Falling Skies (Turner North Center Productions/TNT) – 30%
· Franklin & Bash (Woodridge Productions/TNT) – 30%
· Torchwood: Miracle Day (Bad Wolf Productions/Starz!) – 30%
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Yeah, I know. I LOVE Breaking Bad, but I’m always thinking: “It would be better if some dude from Argentina had directed this. Preferably someone that didn’t speak English.”
Right, that’s the point of such a study, to see how the shows we already enjoy would be different if a minority had directed it. Get a grip. Point is there are plenty of people who deserve a shot and aren’t getting because they don’t have access to the good ol’ boys club.
John, shut up.
No one deserves anything in business.
Go and earn it like those of us who are ACTUALLY successful
Stop being such a pussy, Brian. The Anglo Boys Club is handed plenty in this business. Doesn’t mean everyone who falls in that category didn’t work for it, but sure as hell means some didn’t work as hard. If you’re dumb enough to assume as you have that there’s some kind of ivory tower in this industry, you’re dumb enough not to recognize the system of privilege that benefits YOU.
I look forward to the moot observations of someone who’s shown below average reasoning skills.
The same Breaking Bad whose best director is a woman? C’mon.
Um “minority” does not mean foreign. How racist are you? If you haven’t noticed yet, there are a lot of women and minorities already here in the US and a lot of us speak English.
Doubt anyone is surprised at these statistics.
The question is how long will it take for ‘the old boys’ in control to bring filmmaking and filmmakers into the 21st century?
Sadly, the answer is…TOO LONG.
Or…we could just hire people who are talented and good at their jobs regardless of sex, race or religion. Never mind, that’s crazy talk.
EXACTLY!!!! All these soulful lefties love to talk about their plans for minorities, until it comes to their own pocket.
Amen! I am so sick of people saying certain institutions are “too white”. Hollywood is the most liberal place in America, if you are talented enough to make it you will, regardless if you are white, brown, blue or green. Stirring the pot by playing the race card only creates division. C’mon….
I love LOVE the comments from people like Bill and Sorry. It’s hilarious to see their points of view. “Why can’t we just give opportunities based on talent? Why do we have to give jobs to those minorities and women?”
The purpose behind studies like this is not so that we will give MORE opportunities to minorities and women solely because they are underrepresented, it’s so that they CAN HAVE opportunities… period.
I work in Procurement for a large organization and it’s amazing how many millions and billions of dollars of business are awarded to suppliers/individuals just because there is an existing internal relationship and not solely based on merit.
Studies like this help to show that we have to make a conscious effort to give everyone equal opportunities.
Well said.
And, let me comment on the ‘lefties’ references…why? The only thing about this is old boys school politics. I know…I was there.
I do not believe folks are saying hire minorities or women over qualified (the best) people. I believe people are saying…just give others a chance to demonstrate that they, too, are qualified.
Many qualified folks in the industry may not be the very best, but they are still damn good filmmakers.
@Zach Bingo!
Don’t forget all the minority owned businesses that get government contracts because they are minority owned.
Here’s some insight that will help everyone for rest of their lives: After much research and day-to-day living I have discovered that…Life isn’t fair.
Surprised “Louie” isn’t on the 0% list I thought Louie himself directed all the episodes.
Just hire the best people, what does it matter what color people are? Do hip hop moguls hire as many whites as they can? This is all leftist gobbly goop. Does the white guy that loses out to the minority have the right to sue over discrimination?
If I were a white male director who was struggling to find work, I would be pissed off at the DGA (the guild I pay dues to) for putting out this report, which seems to suggest that too many white male directors are getting work. That said, there are a lot more shows that I enjoy on the over 30 percent list than on the under 15 percent.
As one up and coming exec. at Hollywood Pictures once told me, “Hollywood doesn’t care if they hire minorities or not.
You obviously don’t realize that when it comes to hip hop moguls (Kanye west, Dr.Dre, Jay Z and 50 cent) and the companies that contract those “Hip Hop Moguls” nearly all of those companies are owned and staffed by white men. Just ask Jimmy Iovine, Barry Weiss and Lyor Coen. The purpose of diversity is to give minorities and women a swing at bat in a white male owned and dominated game. Racism is alive and steaming in hollywood.
VEEP. 0%? REALLY?
Perhaps everyone in the entertainment business should b a woman and or a minority. Except for Larry David. Maybe that would shut everyone up about all this politically correct crap.
What woman or minority did Boardwalk Empire hire? I think that’s a mistake.
Thanks DGA for doing this and standing behind it. I wish the WGA had the cojones do the same.
thank you! where’s the wga list? i’ve been the only minority in the writing room many, many times.
“Dissapointing?”
Try sick. Disgusting.
In 2012…this day and age…the amount of purposeful discrimination at such a high degree (over 70%?) in tv directing, is past pathetic.
And don’t tell me it’s about relationships.
The same goes with the film arm as well.
There are countless, talented, hardworking film-tv directors of racial and female diversity the industry shot callers won’t give a chance to, who have either or easily could prove their financial success worth to the same shot callers…regardless of what the stories are about.
Don’t even get me started on the WGA; let alone the upper level of execs at studios.
Yes, discrimination is alive and well in the establishment of Tinseltown. My advice?
Fuck the establishment. Pool your talents, money and time together and go digital and right to the audience…global.
Whew… This is a loaded discussion. As a long time filmmaker, I will say that it is definitely a tough business for women/minorities. That’s just how it is, and the above report validates that. But what is the answer? Diversity programs only go so far. I see so many older women/minorities who walk around this town bitter and pissed off by all of it. But truly, being part of the Internet generation, the only answer I see is for filmmakers to take control of their own careers, and make things happen via digital distribution. It’s so inspiring to see how much headway people like HelloGiggles, Issa Rae, Comediva, Yomyomf and many many others are making by just doing their own work. It’s a bit like indie filmmaking is/used to be, and it’s really a great equalizer, for now, at least.
Why should I care about diversity if diversity doesn’t care about me?
I don’t think it should matter who they hire as long as they hire talented people. There are plenty of talented women, men, minorities etc., and hopefully one day everyone gets their break.
When you check out the shows where they have a high percentage of women or minority directors – typically it’s only 1 director who is directing e.g. Lena Dunham on “Girls”. She’s the ONLY woman directing on that show. All the other directors are white men.
This report is absurdist comedy of the highest order. Are all these so-called male white directors
the same men who bring us shows so suffused with liberal guilt casting? Just look at these
shows, and even the commercials in them. This is supposed to present a diverse view of a
diverse society? No, it’s as sick, racce-conscious society where directors and casting people
have come to believe they’re doing god’s work by casting minorities in utterly improbable
roles utterly rare in the real world.
Judges are always black, usually female and sassy.
Smart black cops always clue in inevitably dumb white cops on cases.
Every tv law firm is chock full of blacks, latins, asians when the real world is that they remain
at best, tokens in a handful of huge firms.
We are shown black doctors who head major hospitals–show them all to me in
the real world. Were I a minority I’d laugh my ass off at all this leftist mentality pandering.
Black professors and computer genius abound in the make believe world of tv casting.
Where is it written, in what tablet of commandments, that shows must hire minorities for
some vague notion about their bringing some special viewpoint to a show. What a crock
of crap. You want real minority viewpoint, go see one of Spike Lee’s bigoted screenplays.
Females are always smarter than males– only if those males were white. And now bring
gays into the equation of pampered minorities whose absence will inevitable trigger
a demand as to why there are no lesbian gay directors.
This is the same dopey argument that would apply if white guys protested the distinct
lack of white wide receivers and running backsp in the NFL, or the “disgracefully bigoted
rosters of NBA basketball teams showing no diversity by being all black. They are black
because they are the best players who bring in the biggest bucks.
The directors are male and white because they are the ones who generate the biggest
most reliable dollars period. Nobody gives a good goddamn about anything but the
benjamins and it’s time the Hollywood lunatic left goit.