A 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 conve…
discussed ways of promoting more black writers and writers living outside of LA and New York into the business.Parks and Recreation“I’ve been black my whole my life and I’m glad the world is recognising, hopefully for the long term that black people are not treated equally in this country and abroad. It’s about opening people’s eyes, the women’s lib movement did and the gay rights movement did. Change only happens through revolution,” Thede said.
All four women agreed that the business needed to find more women and more diverse writers for the industry. Julie Plec, creator of The CW’s, said that one of the problems is that the only people who can afford to move to LA are those with money. She said that she was working with Warner Bros to find a way to have writers from across the country work via Zoom.
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