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Gavin, you wrote a great peek in 2012 in the logic behind hollywoods resistance to black entertainment. which was a sort of i think a different cultural moment then. but why has it been difficult at other periods for films that are about folks that arent white to get made or tv shows? >> thats really simple. people have a tendency to want to make film product about things that they really understand, and that they connect to. unfortunately, and wrongly, the people who run major entertainment com...

Paying attention to. >> part of whats driving part of this is the tremendous success, i think first of scandal and then empire. gavin, what always strikes me about people that are in the position of being executives in television, or movies or anything, is that they have this sense theyve gotten there because theyve figured out what the audience wants. no one actually knows what the audience wants. people throw stuff on the air, some of it works, and some of it doesnt. empire comes along, and pe...

Temperature down a little bit and look at another industry like advertising. they have whats called the general market. then they have over here the multicultural. gays, black, lesbians and asians. whats happening now is the new general market. that new general market is made up of the gays, blacks, latinos and asians, and a chunk of whites. the market is the new consumer. >> youre saying this is very structurally the way advertising thinks about it? >> the manifest to that is it happens in tv f...

Foxs empire. now the biggest phenomenon on tv. all those shows and a whole lot of others including scandal, have created an appetite in hollywood to cast more nonwhite actors in the pilot season. according to deadline a new approach comes with pitfalls. pilot 2015 the year of ethnic casting, about time, or too much of a good thing. describes the plight of all the poor, underworked white people in hollywood. are this is from the article. as is the case with any sea change, the pendulum might have...

Actors in this years pilot season. according to deadline, a new approach comes with pitfalls. the articles headline says it all, pilots 2015: the year of ethnic casting about time or too much of a good thing. describes the plight of all the poor, underworked white people in hollywood. im only slightly exaggerating. this is from the article. as is the case with any sea change, the pendulum might have swung a bit too far in the opposite direction. instead of opening the field for actors of any rac...

That didnt have a more diverse cast. i think it will continue to benefit going forward because it changed their thinking a little bit. still i have to get back to the idea, all the people making those decisions are the same people, theyre all white. >> so that is this new general market. but the thing that hasnt changed is this. weve seen this, you know, rise and growth in the new general market, and yet what we havent seen is the leadership, and the people who make those decisions. that hasnt c...

Artistic director of the classical theater of harlem. great to have you both. gavin, you bro a great piece in 2012 the logic behind hollywoods resistance to black entertainment. which was a sort of i think a different cultural moment then. but why has it been difficult at other periods for films that are about folks that arent white to get made or tv shows? >> thats really simple. people have a tendency to want to make film product about things that they really understand, and that they connect ...