Peter White Television EditorA Black Lady Sketch Show creator and showrunner Robin Thede has challenged the TV industry to greenlight more modern black stories and opened up about how comedy can help change culture.In a conversation as part of the virtual ATX Television Festival, Thede and panellists Liz Feldman, Julie Plec and Marta Kauffman discussed ways of promoting more black writers and writers living outside of LA and New York into the business.Thede also revealed she fired an agent after discovering they didn’t send a spec script to Parks and Recreation because there wasn’t a diversity positions at the NBC shows. “I’ve been black my whole my life and I’m glad the world is recognising, hopefully for the long term that black people.
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