Key Highlights
- The actions include putting class on the agenda of a company’s culture and leadership; bringing back job interviews in recruitment; levelling the playing field by paying the real living wage for entry level roles at the least; and supporting the next moves of staff with potentially longer contracts.
- Related Stories News Popular BBC Weather Presenter Carol Kirkwood Leaving After Almost Three Decades News Senate Hearing On Netflix-Warner Bros Transaction Set For February; Co-CEO Ted Sarandos To Testify Another nine key players have pledged to be Class Confident including Hat Trick Productions, The Traitors indie Studio Lambert and Squid Game: The Challenge co-producer The Garden.
- Watch on Deadline The aim of the actions is to improve the woefully poor landscape for working class people in the British TV industry.
- Recent research has found that nearly one in four people in senior TV roles have the cultural and economic advantages of a private school education, which is more than three times higher than the 7.5% of the general population who are privately educated.
- Dear England creator Graham argued passionately for greater working class representation during his MacTaggart, claiming the industry was “squeamish about defining it, and as a result, we quite often still exclude it from industry measurements around diversity.” “Taboo topic” TV Foundation Impact Director Gemma Bradshaw said: “When we first started talking about working class voices in the industry it was a taboo topic.
