BBC TV boss: No all-male panel shows

[chaya]

Panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week will no longer have all-male line-ups, the BBC's director of TV has said.

"We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women on them," Danny Cohen told the Observer. "You can't do that. It's not acceptable."His comments come two months after the BBC Trust was reported to have told executives

Comments

[ms_mmelissa]

I love watching all those silly British panel shows but it's true, it's so bizarre to watch some of them and just have it be a field of all white men. I hope the shows go above and beyond booking the one woman they're obliged to have per show and start having two or *gasp* even half the panelists be women.

[moonshaz]

OT, but--icon love!

[nightfall404]

I remember an episode of QI (two actually) that featured three women. That is to 100% of the guests since Alan Davies is a fixed position.

[dvdsky81]

Of all of them, QI's pretty good at having women on several times a series as well as 8 Out Of 10 Cats, but shows like Mock The Week are sorely lacking. I think it's Jo Brand that pretty much refuses Mock The Week due to not being able to get in joke/word in edgewise and what she does get in get's killed at edit, which is obviously shitty. So she's just given up on the show. They have several returning male comedians on the show but the women usual do 1, maybe 2, go's and you never see them again.

[chaya]

I love QI but it's not good at having women, it's just the best of the bad lot. Jo Brand's great but she's not always on and when she is, she's 1 person out of 5 on stage.

[dvdsky81]

In the last series alone theres been: Jo, Sandi Toksvig, Isy Suttie, Liza Tarbuck, Susan Calman(Sandi,Liza, and Sue all on the last episode together), Sue Perkins, Sara Pascoe, Kathrine Ryan, Victoria Wood, Janet Street-Porter, and Victoria Coren. There's only been a couple of episodes that DIDNT have women in some way involved. The show was pretty male dominated way at the beginning for the first few series, but the last few have been becoming alot more inclusive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes#Series_A:_2003

[chaya]

It's improved in the most recent seasons but it's still hugely disproportionate.

[hey_spectrum]

They need to extend this to putting a girl panelist on top gear

[chaya]

Don't subject some poor woman to those people augh

[dvdsky81]

My thoughts exactly. Plus, not sure if any self respecting woman could stomach Clarkson longer than a few seconds it takes to knock his teeth down his throat.

[gambitia]

Aw, I find them all kind of charming. Especially Richard.

[sarah531]

Just as long as they don't do what they usually do, which is not allow any of the women to get a word in edgeways...

[gooseberrywine]

This is still shit. They should be aiming for 50/50

[chaya]

The Daily Mail would jizz itself and then faint

[skellington1]

But that's basically their morning agenda, isn't it?

*wake up*
*things are happening, and some of them involve women and and minorities and teh science*
*OMG TEH DAILY MAIL CAN'T DEAL*

EDIT: It is truly grammar pedant hell when you realize you made a they're/their mistake and the screen hangs so you have to STARE at it without being able to do anything.