How Underrepresented TV Writers Have Faced More Inequities During The Pandemic
A new survey of underrepresented TV writers found that last summer’s racial reckoning may have led to more opportunities — but not necessarily better ones.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s racial uprisings created further challenges and complications for TV writers from historically underrepresented backgrounds, and progress has been incremental at best, according to a new survey from the Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity, a coalition of underrepresented TV writers.
For the third consecutive year, the group conducted a wide-ranging survey of underrepresented TV writers in Hollywood, in response to a lack of comprehensive data about the challenges they face when trying to move up in the industry. This year’s edition of the survey also aimed to assess what effects the pandemic and last summer’s racial reckoning had on the work of underrepresented TV writers.