The global television industry has finally got the memo on diversity. The push to make small-screen storytelling, in front and behind the camera, more representative of the variety in the societies it reflects, has been an activist goal for years.
Thanks to several top-down actions by major networks and streamers, it is starting to become a reality, said industry executives attending this week's digital MIPTV market on international television. "We've started to build up structural systemic changes and mechanisms to give access and exposure to the talent that has been kept out of this business," said Latasha Gillespie, head of Global Diversity, Equity and inclusion at Amazon Studios, in a MIPTV online panel discussion on diversity, noting.
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