direct to your inboxCoronation Street has dropped one of its regular directors over online posts rubbishing concerns over racism in the industry.
Steve Finn, a freelancer who has worked on the long-running soap over the past two years including this year's Christmas Day episode, has been axed by the show after making Facebook posts 'inconsistent with the values of both Coronation Street and ITV.' He made the comments in response to TV presenter, broadcaster and historian David Olusoga telling the Edinburgh TV Festival that his career had sometimes left him feeling 'crushed, isolated' and 'disempowered.'Mr Olusoga wanted to talk about his experiences as a black person working in TV 'in the spirit of Black Lives Matter.'While he felt working.
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