DGA releases statistics on the TV shows that hire the most women directors

[ms_mmelissa]

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- Ava DuVernay (@ava) August 17, 2018

Out of 13 shows that employed women directors 60% of the time or more only 3 (Queen Sugar, Insecure, and American Crime) hired women of colour to direct 50% of the time or more. All three of those shows were created by black showrunners (Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae and John Ridley

Comments

[bsfan]

How are they just not gonna have Jessica Jones that had 100% female directors in season 2?

[meganlynn09]

Yeah, they have Grace and Frankie listed, so Jessica Jones is weirdly left out.

Oh, it says 2016-2017, season 2 came out this year.

[ms_mmelissa]

Because it came out in 2018 and these stats are for 2016/2017.

[bsfan]

I can't believe I fell into the ONTD doesn't read trap.

Also wow that season really didn't make an impact on me because I was like this year? No way.

[scarlettnoire]

Damn they did a trash ass job 🤢