During the COVID-19 pandemic, television viewers embraced content that came out of diverse writers rooms and featured diverse casts, according to a new UCLA report released on Tuesday.
“We have seen this appetite for diverse content repeated over the history of our analyses,” said Darnell Hunt, UCLA’s dean of social sciences and co-author of the Hollywood Diversity Report. “The fact that shows with diverse writers rooms did well last year also illustrates that audiences are looking for authentic portrayals.”
However, the research also revealed a bleaker picture for Latino talent. The study said Latino representation in all job categories remained flat from the previous year, and Latinos hold far fewer TV jobs than their share of the U.S.