Industry presidents, executives, actors, showrunners and more joined Variety’s virtual TV Summit to discuss how they are navigating the ever-changing business, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic…
McCarthy stresseed that the cable channels in his group — including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Pop and Smithsonian — have become more of a launch pad for content that can now live in various amounts of platforms.Despite Hollywood being given the greenlight to return to set, many drama showrunners atvirtual “A Night in the Writers’ Room” agreed that they are “still in wait-and-see mode.
“I don’t know how you look at a police show and ignore [racial injustice],” said Michael Thorn, president of Fox Entertainment. “We certainly won’t.” “That unfortunate perfect storm created a moment where people couldn’t deny what was happening in this country anymore,” said Carroll. “Because of that and because of the magnitude of the response we’ve seen, it does feel different…The speed with which so many companies, networks, studios, other entertainment entities put out statements in support of Black Lives Matter is not something we saw before.
“Before we started filming, I brought into the room with me — into the funeral scene — a list of names. Before we started filming, I read all of the names of the trans women who had died that year,” Ross said while tearing up during the virtual TV panel. “I brought their names into the space and I encouraged everyone to just use this moment to be cathartic.”PBS CEO Paula Kerger spoke at length about how the coronavirus outbreak and protests affected PBS and how the public broadcaster responded.
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