Mónica Marie Zorrilla Series like “Reservation Dogs,” “Gossip Girl,” “Run the World,” “Bling Empire,” “Rutherford Falls,” “The Wonder Years” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls” helped make 2021 a good year for diverse, on-screen representation.
Those shows helped break barriers for AAPI, BIPOC and Native American visibility on television, as well as LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Per Nielsen data for the 2021-2021 TV season, among the top 1,500 programs, 78% have some presence of racial, ethnic, gender, or sexual orientation inclusivity.
But, according to Nielsen’s new Diverse Intelligence Series report, those numbers don’t tell the entire story.It’s not just the quantity of the representation on TV, but the quality of it that Hollywood needs to care.
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