The achievement follows the network’s effort to diversify its directorial ranks, an ongoing initiative first spurred by a 2015 Variety investigation which found that only 12% of FX’s directors during the 2014-2015 TV cycle were women or people of color
— a story that Landgraf name-checked at the Saturday luncheon — which found that only 12% of FX’s directors during the 2014-2015 TV cycle were women or people of color, making it the worst network offender that season.
“The decision to do ‘Damages’ gave rise to ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Mayans’ and ‘Snowfall’ and ‘Better Things,’ he said. “We’ve gotten more Emmy nominations and won more Emmys for female actors over 30 than any network in television for the last decade. So even though I missed a really great piece of programming [by losing “Breaking Bad” to AMC], I think I made a good decision. … Our organization is better, in every respect, for having embraced the potential of our entire society.
“I think the American consumer is absolutely overwhelmed with choice,” he said. “More choice that they could possibly pay attention to.” “I think the optimal streaming service would have some measure of all of them, and that’s why I think Disney’s unbelievably strong,” he said of FX’s parent company in the wake of Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment portfolio.
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