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

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[savage_land]

I’m almost a thousand percent sure my fave shows are not inclusive.

Gotham
Will&Grace
AHS/AmericanCrimeStory
The Gifted

[corgismiles]

I need to look up how many female directors and writers Game of Thrones has. If that infamous "bad pussy" quote is any indication...I'm guessing not many, lmao.

[ms_mmelissa]

Isn't the number 0? All the eps are written by those two guys and I don't think they've ever hired a woman to direct.

[corgismiles]

Probably, I never really even bothered to find out who the showrunners are tbh.

[ms_mmelissa]

BTW I looked this up. They've hire a woman to direct once: Michelle MacLaren has directed 4 eps.

[neuers]

Queen Sugar!!!! ❤❤❤

[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.

[musicnkisses]

29% of Insecure is written by white people? That strikes me as a lot.

[ms_mmelissa]

No? These stats are for directing and the 29% is just directors who aren't woc. I'm pretty sure they're mostly men of colour.

[musicnkisses]

Oh shit, that makes sense lol.

[nene718]

Just to add Issa posted a pic of the writers and there were like 2 white ones