Thursday, June 26, 2008

Too much diversity in front of camera... not enough behind it...

'Too many black and Asian faces on TV,' says BBC director Samir Shah

Broadcasters have overcompensated for their lack of executives from ethnic minorities by putting too many black and Asian faces on screen, a leading television industry figure said last night.

Samir Shah, a member of the BBC's board of directors, said this had led to a "world of deracinated coloured people flickering across our screens - to the irritation of many viewers and the embarrassment of the very people such actions are meant to appease".

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