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Free BBC Academy podcasting webinars available The BBC Academy’s Production Unlocked is launching a series of free webinars for people who make Podcasts. Running throughout May, the series brings together podcast presenters, producers and commissioners in and outside the BBC. They’ll be discussing everything from formats, storytelling and what’s going to the next big Pod. Places are free and you don’t need to work at the BBC or be a member of the BBC Academy. For details of the whole series see this link. Here are the details of all the upcoming events: Tuesday 11 May 14...

In insisting on rigid racial stereotypes, progressives could end up segregating drama and storytelling 16 April 2021 • 4:15pm This has been a week of confused and confusing messages on diversity. Just as Hank Azaria expressed his desire to personally apologise to “to every single Indian person” in the US for stereotypical representation of South Asians in The Simpsons, the BBC’s Diversity Chief appeared to launch an attack on the crime drama Luther for being only superficially diverse because its lead character doesn’t conform with stereotypes, such as eating Caribbean food.  Ther...

Laura Radford/HBO International TV executives point to the success of shows like BBC/HBO Max drama 'I May Destroy You' of how diversity "can give storytelling an edge." Building on momentum from social movements like Black Lives Matter, broadcasters worldwide are pushing for more inclusivity: "It's a never-ending goal." The global television industry has finally got the memo on diversity. The push to make small-screen storytelling, in front and behind the camera, more representative of the variety in the societies it reflects, has been an activist goal for years. Thanks to several top-down a...

Idris Elba's 'Luther' Branded Unauthentic by BBC Diversity Chief TV The drama series fronted by the 'Star Trek Beyond' actor is criticized for the lack of Black culture by the head of BBC's creative diversity Miranda Wayland. Apr 15, 2021 Luther" "doesn't feel authentic" due to the absence of Black culture in the character's life. The hit crime drama starring Elba as troubled detective chief inspector John Luther and Ruth Wilson as the psychopathic murderer Alice, has run for five seasons since 2010, with a film reportedly in the works. Addressing the diversity on the show during a talk at...

The BBC's diversity chief has claimed Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food'. Miranda Wayland said the hit crime drama, which won plaudits for having a strong, black lead character, was only superficially diverse and that corporation bosses are now looking to portray minority groups in a more convincing and rounded way. Elba, who first made his name across the Atlantic starring as Stringer Bell in The Wire, cemented his status as a worldwide star by picking up a Golden Globe, among other g...