Thanks as much to history as to contemporary globalization, life and culture in the U.S. and the U.K. have many things in common. Unfortunately, this is one of them:
by Ian Burrell
The lead writer of a BBC television series which gave a break to the Homeland actor David Harewood has claimed that it wrecked her career after she became typecast as a “black writer.”
Avril Russell said she had been unemployed for almost a decade after writing the BBC2 series Babyfather, which was billed as a black male version of Sex And The City. She had previously enjoyed a varied career writing for mainstream TV dramas including The Bill and Silent Witness, and wrote short stories for television.