More women and people of color are creating television shows but the industry is falling short of equality when it comes to spreading production money around, according to a new study.
The series greenlit for TV’s 2020-21 season furthered diversity on and off-screen but white men had a significant edge in creating high-budget series, said the University of California, Los Angeles, study released Thursday.
For more cost-conscious broadcast networks and cable channels, $3 million was set as the study’s high-budget benchmark. In broadcast, 28.5% of people of color were credited as creators of such shows, 13% were white women and 41.5% were white men. For cable, the figures were 29.2% for people of color, 13.3% for white women and 48% for white men.
The so-called pipeline effect has been cited before as key to giving underrepresented groups a chance to rise in the industry — and to serve an audience and nation that is increasingly diverse. While white people remain the most prevalent U.S. racial or ethnic group, the 2020 census found an unprecedented drop in their numbers as the Hispanic and Asian populations boomed this past decade.
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