Meanwhile, in the UK the TV elite looks to be putting its desire for more diversity in creators and audiences where its delightfully metaphorical mouth is:
by Vanessa Thorpe
Stuart Murphy, the influential head of entertainment at Sky TV who resigned on Friday, has joined some of Britain’s leading television screenwriters, includingPaul Abbott and Brian Elsley, creators of the hit dramas Shameless and Skins, in calling for a wider social range in British dramas. Telling stories about people from every class is not just a moral duty, Murphy argues, it also makes better television.
Murphy, Abbott and Elsley are supporting a scheme, launched this weekend, which uses funds gleaned from top ratings successes such as Downton Abbey andCall the Midwife to find and then sponsor writers from less privileged backgrounds.