(L-R) Samantha McMillon, COO, Quay Street Productions; Amber Haque, Presenter and Documentary Maker; Iain MacLeod, Executive Producer, Continuing Drama, ITV; Pam Cavannagh, CEO, Purple Productions; Michael Jochnowitz, Interim Editor of Unscripted Commissioning, BBC; Emma Morris, Executive Editor of Morning Live and The One Show, BBC Studios; Rick Murray, CEO, Workerbee and Chair: Gethin Jones, BBC presenter, Morning Live

Neglect of working class comes home to roost in British TV

A cross-industry initiative aims to reset the TV industry’s class imbalance by 2030, but is there any chance it will succeed?

If television was ever the opiate of the masses, then the drugs are no longer working. The industry has progressed from the days of being monopolised by an Oxbridge-educated (white, male) elite, but according to a new report, TV’s class imbalance remains a significant ethical and commercial barrier...

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